I know that writing well and with economy are pre-requisites for the cogent deliberation on a contentious topic being selected for publication as a Letter to the Editor. After all, each day only a ...

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Portrait of Jane Baillie Carlyle (formerly Jane Baillie Welsh), circa 1845. For centuries, biographers have been able to rely on a priceless resource when it comes to 18th, 19th and 20th century ...

The Earl of Chesterfield, the 18th-century British statesman and patron of the arts, had a number of concerns about his illegitimate son Philip, but one he revisited often in his posthumously ...