My book's about... - Ruth Bullivant

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My book's about..., Planning a book, Publishing / Ruth Bullivant

When Thomas Jefferson went about arranging his libraries in Monticello, Virginia, he used a taxonomic system based on one created by Francis Bacon. There were three headline categories: Memory Reason, and Imagination Memory was history. Reason was philosophy and emerging science. Imagination was the world of Fine Arts, and also the slowly growing genre of novels. We think a lot about defining […]

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Kings, scissors and paper

Molly Peacock’s Paper Garden is ‘about’ Mary Delaney. Or is it? 18th century London: at 8, she watched Handel play her spinet. At 17, Lord Baltimore nearly proposed. At 40, she married Jonathan Swift’s friend. 25 years later, he died, and she fell into depression. A falling, scarlet geranium petal caught her interest. At 72,

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Kings, scissors and paper