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Published: 19 October 2006

A Victorian morality tale for our times

The Overend and Gurney financial affair rocked Victorian society and was the ‘Barings scandal’ of its day, writes Illtyd Harrington

JESUS drove the moneylenders out of the Temple in Jerusalem. But it was greed which caused Christian bankers Overend... > more

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Cook, his wife, her lovers and memories
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Who’s ever heard of Mr Virginia Woolf?
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The women who are far from veiled
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The twelve days which shook Victor's world
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The enigma that was Katharine Hepburn - WE were sitting in the Californian sunshine, Spencer Tracy and I, in orange canvas chairs outside a Bel-Air mansion... > more

Send in the clowns – but no elephants - ONCE upon a time there was a circus, which had no performing animals apart from a duck who would quack to the sound... > more

Romeo and Juliet who fled the Nazis in a boat - MICHAEL Arditti did not set out to write a parable. But his new novel A Sea Change is more than just a love story. > more

A true free spirit of the Middle East - BOMBS over Beirut, bullets across Baghdad: Abdelrahman Munif must be wailing in his grave. > more

Victorian masses and leisure principle - THE consumer society, says Judith Flanders, starts here. With the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was launched, to the... > more

The dutiful daughter of our greatest writer - SHE was the third child of ten, the second daughter of England’s greatest novelist and social campaigner... > more

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