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Kathryn Hughes

Kathryn Hughes is Professor Emerita of Life Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her books include Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum, George Eliot: The Last Victorian, and The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton. (November 2022)

Department of Speculation

A new book on the history of a group of British clairvoyants charged with predicting disasters maintains a scrupulous neutrality as to whether these precognitions were coincidences or supernatural happenings.

The Premonitions Bureau: A True Account of Death Foretold

by Sam Knight

November 3, 2022 issue

The White Heat of Conviction

There is nothing judicious, careful, or patient in Frances Wilson’s new biography of D.H. Lawrence, which is exactly how Lawrence would have wanted it.

Burning Man: The Trials of D.H. Lawrence

by Frances Wilson

November 18, 2021 issue

Max Beerbohm: William Wordsworth in the Lake District, at Cross-purposes, 1904

Bliss in That Dawn

Radical Wordsworth: The Poet Who Changed the World

by Jonathan Bate

The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and Their Year of Marvels

by Adam Nicolson, with woodcuts and paintings by Tom Hammick

William Wordsworth: A Life, Second Edition

by Stephen Gill

September 24, 2020 issue

From back center to right, Daphne, Sydney, Noel, Margery, and Brynhild Olivier at a picnic, Hampshire, 1910

Private Lives

The Olivier Sisters: A Biography

by Sarah Watling

October 10, 2019 issue

John Singer Sargent: The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant, 1899

The Inglenooks of Power

Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

by Claudia Renton

December 6, 2018 issue

A colored lithograph from A Book of Nonsense, by Edward Lear, circa 1875

Happy as a Hedgehog

Mr. Lear: A Life of Art and Nonsense

by Jenny Uglow

June 7, 2018 issue

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