Elaine Showalter on the “avid, ardent, driven, generous, narcissistic, Olympian, obtuse, maddening, sometimes loveable but not very likeable” Susan Sontag; Patrice Higonnet goes in search of the real Robespierre; A. N. Wilson cuts through class, aristocracy, family and fantasy in Downton AbbeySontag: Her life, by Benjamin MoserRobespierre: L’homme qui nous divise le plus, by Marcel GauchetDownton Abbey (Various cinemas)Almanach de Gotha 2019, two volumes, edited by John James
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