Category: Literature

Getting It Right

Yesterday’s post and the quotation from The Young Visiters last week, were culled from an anthology, Marriage, compiled by Elizabeth Jane Howard in 1997.

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On Marriage

There is no greater risk, perhaps, than matrimony, but there is nothing happier than a happy marriage. (Benjamin Disraeli, from a letter to Princess Louise on her engagement, 1870)

In Hazard

What novels were published in 1938?

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A Proposale

In which the hero proposes to the heroine.

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The Great Fire

“Exquisitely crafted … the most interesting work of fiction published this year.” (Books of the Year, The Economist)

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The Romantic

This is William Boyd’s latest, published last year so not yet in paperback.

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Left Hand, Right Hand

Henry, 1st Earl of Londesborough (1834-1900) was one of Osbert Sitwell’s (1892-1969) grandfathers so unsurprisingly he features in Osbert’s memoir Left Hand, Right Hand.