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who can like the highlands?
Or so asked Dr. Johnson after James Boswell had dragged him from Edinburgh to Inverness to Skye and back to the Lowlands. Boswell could, and soon set about immortalizing the tour. … Among the arts of life, Jean Cocteau once … Continue reading
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Tagged David Hume, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Jean Cocteau, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Wilkes, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Collings, Thomas Rowlandson, Tom Davies Bookshop
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WALK ON THE WILD SIDE:GENDER BENDING & “LE SECRET”
Perplexing could be the word. The Chevalier d’Eon could be said to have had a perplexing career. In France his name was a household word: of both masculine and feminine gender. Voltaire once famously described the Chevalier as “A nice … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lang, Anna Clark, Beaumarchais, Chevalier d'Eon, Comte de Broglie, Debbie Foulkes, Denis Diderot, Edmund Burke, Evelyne Lever, Fernand Jousselin, Gary Kates, Havelock Ellis, Horace Walpole, Ian Herbert, James Boswell, Jean-Baptiste Lilly, Joel Richard Paul, John Coulthart, John Wilkes, Jonathan Conlin, Judith Mackrell, Lou Reed, madame de Pompadour, Marie Antionette, Mark Brownell, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maurice Lever, Moliere, Octave Homberg, Paul Kuritz, Philip Core, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Reversal of Alliances, Robert Lepage, Russell Maliphant, Seven Years War, Simon Burrows, Tow Ubukata, Voltaire, William J. Thomas
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TOTAL RECALL:HAUNTED BY REJECTION
”First, the bedpost notches: let’s get them out of the way. In his History of My Life. Casanova records sexual experiences with well over a hundred women – 122 to 136, depending on how one computes certain group and semi-consummated … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Karloff, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Giacomo Casanova, Guy Dammann, Henry Fielding, Ian Kelly, Ian kelly Guardian, James Boswell, James Gillray, John Wilkes, Judith Summers, Kitty Fisher, Lydia Flem, Marquis de Sade, Moll Flanders, Sally Salisbury, Samuel Johnson, Susan Swan, Tennyson, Val Lewton, William Hickey, William Hogarth
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