In “The School for Scandal,” gossip is not merely a pastime for tony Londoners. It is a credo and a calling. Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s 1777 satirical comedy of manners constructs an ornate ...
David Bowie secretly began working on a musical set in 18th-century London in the months leading up to his death in 2016, according to new notes discovered locked in his New York City office. Bowie ...
BOSTON — Stories of criminals, ghosts, shipwrecks and pirates swirled through the busy streets of 18th century London. Competing writers spun outlandish stories, and selling the tales was part of the ...
Sophie Gee is a literature professor with an Ivy League pedigree, but her imagination gives her erudition a run for its money in her first novel, The Scandal of the Season, a chronicle of the sexy, ...
Set in 18th century London, Hulu's new drama, Harlots, is about a group of women who work and live in brothels. The show is told from the point of view of the women and has an almost entirely female ...
In “The Great Stink,” Clare Clark placed a story of murder against the backdrop of the sewers of Victorian London. Now, in “The Nature of Monsters,” she turns to the 18th century and a London no less ...
In “Harlots,” an engaging new period melodrama that debuts Wednesday on Hulu, two whorehouses, unalike in dignity, go to war in 1763 London, ancient grudge breaking to new mutiny. Samantha Morton ...
A newly renovated, 18-century home, which sits on the site of a bakehouse where pots were fired for the Chelsea Porcelain Works factory, hit the market last month in Chelsea, London. The Old Church ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A late 18th-century mechanical organ, built into a clock made by Henry Borrell of London, plays melodies that sound completely unlike those ...
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