Status Updates From Anthony Powell: Dancing to ...

Exceptional writing from Spurling who manages to immerse the reader in Powells world and milieu… he’s presented as a sort of Nick Jenkins Observer of his own life and he ruthlessly used almost anyone he met for characters in all his novels - like Lawrence used to do

Wiki: "She entered one of her clerihews for a Spectator competition and won it, whereupon the editor invited her to set the next one."

Wiki: "That spring Woodgate’s long theatrical tradition reached its grand finale with an ambitious staging of the Tranby Croft scandal, a ludicrous affair that mesmerized Victorian society in the 1890s."

Wiki: "Constant, who had heard all about Tony’s dim view of Ireland, sent Violet a postcard of Burne-Jones’s Love and the Pilgrim, showing the luckless pilgrim being extracted from a bramble bog by the winged figure of Love."

Wiki: "... and an ambitious young Canadian architect, Wells Coates, currently making a name for himself with his Isokon building, a block of flats on Lawn Road in north London that proposed a revolution in urban living."

Wiki: "Those tastes had been drastically expanded and updated by an eye-opening revival of The Beggar’s Opera that Tony saw not long after its opening at the end of his first year at Eton."