Tag Archives: Philip V. Allingham

A NORTHERN WIZARD: Writing For Love, Money & “The Great Unknowns”

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Dave

Like Dickens and Balzac, he wrote because he could not help writing, but he did not think that the chief business of life was to be put into literature; and much as he appreciated his contemporary fame, he does not appear to have cared … Continue reading →

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US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Dave

Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading →