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The 1891 Cambridge petition, and the twenty-four extraordinary women who signed it
Jan 18
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Introducing the Ladies' Dining Society
A quietly radical group
Sep 7, 2024
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Ann Kennedy Smith
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A Cambridge Love Letter
February 2026: celebrating love and other imperfections
Feb 3
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'Charming and violent and gifted'
Aug 31, 2024
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Ann Kennedy Smith
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Reading 20th-century women writers
Aug 3, 2024
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The wedding photos, part 1
Jun 16, 2024
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Dorothy L. Sayers at Oxford
Jun 1, 2025
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The fascinating Miss Pym
May 4, 2024
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The Case of Miss Dorothy Sayers
Aug 3, 2025
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Ann Kennedy Smith
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E. M. Forster's room with a view
The mantelpiece from Howards End (1910)
Jan 25
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Elizabeth Taylor (3): war and domesticity
A refusal to accept
Jan 14
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A Cambridge Letter on Twelfth Night
January 2026, going forward
Jan 5
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My Substack year
A few things I've written about & photographed in 2025
Dec 21, 2025
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At home with Elizabeth Taylor (2)
1938-1945: ‘I begin to smoulder… I Have Started Again.’
Dec 15, 2025
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Elizabeth Taylor, novelist in waiting (1)
1932-38: An unmuddled attitude to life
Dec 9, 2025
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Those amazing Steamboat Ladies
The Oxbridge women who travelled across the Irish Sea
Nov 29, 2025
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Alan Horn
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