Peter Quennell and Alan Hodge were joint editors of History Today for the remarkable duration of twenty-nine years from 1951 until 1979.
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A Letter to Mrs. Virginia Woolf, by Peter Quennell (1932) Hogarth Press. For this assignment, I looked into the letter from Peter Quennell...
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The Lost Girls” is a group biography of love and lust among the wartime literati.
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Peter Quennell, a dashing English man of letters who also wrote about the celebrities he socialized with, died on Wednesday in London. He was 88.
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Rather D.J. Taylor than me, when it comes to untangling the unbelievably complicated and messy love lives of the so-called Horizon circle:...
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When Italy's highest court reversed the acquittal of Amanda Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito this week, a small cottage industry on...
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I was initially drawn to A Letter to Mrs. Virginia Woolf, by Peter Quennell because of its size. Among the rest of the artifacts on the...
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A new study shows that Americans in midlife are lonelier than previous generations and counterparts in other countries.
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THE time is long past when Alexander Pope was identified with his least impressive verse, and having been the eighteenth century's supreme English poet,...
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In this memoir AN Wilson calls the prolific essayist-biographer Peter Quennell “a charming old throwback to a vanished literary age”.
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