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December 31, 2010

Debo Speaks!

December 31, 2010/ Honoria St. Cyr

For most of the 20th century, the vivacious, controversial Mitford sisters captivated the imagination of the Western world. In a long-awaited memoir, Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, the last living Mitford sister, tells her story at last.

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December 31, 2010/ Honoria St. Cyr/
Arts & Life
Book Review, Evelyn Waugh, first world war, January 2011, world war II
July 31, 2010

The Thin, Clear, Happy Call

July 31, 2010/ Honoria St. Cyr

The sunlit aesthetics of the Edwardian era have been given a new look in this essay collection, and the consensus leans decidedly toward the darker meanings belying those lovely surfaces

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July 31, 2010/ Honoria St. Cyr/
Politics & History
August 2010, Book Review
December 31, 2009

The Wonder of Their Ways

December 31, 2009/ Honoria St. Cyr

Two books by Jeff Mynott and Colin Tudge explore why it is that birds have such a hold on our hearts. Honoria St. Cyr adds her observations - on the books and on those little marvels around the feeder.

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December 31, 2009/ Honoria St. Cyr/
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January 2010
June 30, 2009

Classics Illustrated

June 30, 2009/ Honoria St. Cyr

An affection for annotated classics and an abiding love for The Wind in the Willows makes Honoria St. Cyr singularly suited to review the new annotated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s classic, edited by Seth Lerer—she shares her discoveries here

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June 30, 2009/ Honoria St. Cyr/
Fiction
fiction, July 2009
January 31, 2009

“…and you have got some friends of the wrong sort dear boy…”

January 31, 2009/ Honoria St. Cyr

And you thought text-messaging was bad! In the 1920s, the gin-soaked youth movement of the Bright Young People swept through London, making headlines and raising eyebrows. Honoria St. Cyr takes a whirl through D. J. Taylor’s book on the subject and asks: “WTF?”

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January 31, 2009/ Honoria St. Cyr/
Politics & History
February 2009, history
February 29, 2008

At the Old Vic

February 29, 2008/ Honoria St. Cyr

A comprehensive new theater book, London Stage in the 20th Century, leads Honoria St. Cyr to reminisce on performances magnificent and disastrous staged in the world-famous West End.

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February 29, 2008/ Honoria St. Cyr/
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March 2008
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