David Waller is an author specialising in business and historical biography. His new book The Reputation Game, co-authored with Rupert Younger of Oxford University, looks at the way reputations are built, maintained, lost and rebuilt in private, public and commercial life. His other books include The Perfect Man, a biography of Eugen Sandow, the man the late Victorians reckoned to have the best body in the world as well as The Magnificent Mrs Tennant, a life of a Victorian society hostess who had a fling with Gustave Flaubert. … Read more about ABOUT DAVID
From Victorian Kensington to Bloomsbury: A Literary Legacy
OLD KENSINGTON, A NOVEL by Anny Thackeray Ritchie, was first published in 1879. Not much read now, in its time the book was highly popular and went into five editions. It came out as Kensington was taking its modern shape, the elegant squares and terraces of stucco town houses that define the area today replacing […]