The cultural power of balladry
This ancient form can still entrance and unnerve us
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Reviewing politics
and culture since 1913
Frances Wilson’s books include Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark (Bloomsbury Circus).
This ancient form can still entrance and unnerve us
By Frances Wilson
Andrew Marr’s Elizabethans is a history of the British national spirit from 1953 to the present day.
By Frances Wilson
M John Harrison’s masterpiece has inventiveness embedded in its very DNA.
By Frances Wilson
Discovering the life of Eileen Blair, the “black hole at the centre of Orwell studies”.
By Frances Wilson
In Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer, Richard Holmes described how, aged 18, he followed the route taken by…
By Frances Wilson
Without its own code of manners, any social group would dissolve into anarchy.
By Frances Wilson
Rachel Hewitt’s book is fuelled by vim and vigour.
By Frances Wilson
I live in a state of perpetual excitement, like a figure in a Quentin Blake illustration.
By Frances Wilson
Malcolm Guite’s religious portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
By Frances Wilson