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Oxford, England · OxfordLady Pamela Berry (1914–82), also known as Lady Hartwell after her husband, Michael Berry, the owner of The Daily Telegraph and the founder of the newspaper’s Sunday version, who became Baron Hartwell, claimed she came from “the people,” as her daughter Harriet Cullen details in Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power. Pam’s father, F. E. Smith, the first Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930), was a self-made man; his great-grandfather had been …Read Article
“The gypsy lady who rocked the boat,” by David Platzer
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Civil War · New YorkNonfiction: The Civil War, by Jeremy Black (St. Augustine’s Press): I would not ordinarily expect, in a book about the American Civil War, to see mentioned the eruption of Mount Dubbi in Eritrea, May–October 1861, the largest such documented on the continent of Africa. But then Jeremy Black is no ordinary historian, and his noting that the eruption may have affected American weather patterns in 1862 (wet spring, cold summer) is but one example o…Read Article
“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors
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San Marino, California · San MarinoArnold Schoenberg’s string sextet Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) has everything one could wish for in a work of fin de siècle Europe: haunted groves with black branches reaching into the moon, illicit sex, an illegitimate pregnancy, and a luminous reconciliation. The program is from Richard Dehmel’s 1896 poem, which inspired the sextet. The New Hollywood String Quartet advertised Verklärte Nacht as part of their Summer of Angels Concerts a…Read Article
“Credible tones,” by M. P. Kennedy
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