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Alfred, Lord Tennyson is practically a byword for old-fashioned Victorian grandeur, rarely pictured without a cravat and a serious beard.
Seamus Perry tries to picture him as a younger man.
Seamus Perry - Before the Beard
Seamus Perry: Before the Beard - The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
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Novelist Muriel Spark had a tongue that could produce both sugar and poison. It’s no surprise, then, that her letters make for a brilliant read.
@claire_harman considers some of the most entertaining.
Claire Harman - Fighting Words
Claire Harman: Fighting Words - The Letters of Muriel Spark, Volume 1: 1944-1963 by Dan Gunn
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Of all the articles I’ve published in recent years, this is *by far* my favourite.
✍️ On childhood, memory, and the sea - for @Lit_Review :
https://literaryreview.co.uk/flotsam-and-jetsam