Category Archives: London
Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
“Oh my God. Something’s happened. Lower the curtain”
100 years since the death of Chung Ling Soo (William Robertson)
“Oh my God. Something’s happened. Lower the curtain”
100 years since the death of Chung Ling Soo (William Robertson)
18 books for 2018
Three Marcels, two Nutters and a Sissi: imaginary lives and lives beyond imagining.
18 books for 2018
Three Marcels, two Nutters and a Sissi: imaginary lives and lives beyond imagining.
Back to The Pleasure Garden
Happy birthday Hattie Jacques!
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
Phantoms of Surrealism
Sheila Legge, the faceless face of British Surrealism
Long dark night of the soul
“Je suis la Vierge immaculée!”
The Picture of John Gray
A tale of social mobility written across a map of London
Pages: Sheila
“The Australian ingenue who bewitched British society”
The literary lion in winter
“Where is Oscar? Where is Bosie?”
Simeon Solomon | drawings
Small-scale works by the great Pre-Raphaelite artist
Omega Workshops | designs
Roger Fry’s design team reimagined the everyday objects around us.
Dress-down Friday: Lulu
The hidden Victorian origins of cross-dressing trapeze artistry…
Unknown | The Dandy’s Perambulations
The dandies presented in this charmingly illustrated, uncredited children’s book are bumbling, anxious and coddled.
Unknown | The Dandy’s Perambulations
The dandies presented in this charmingly illustrated, uncredited children’s book are bumbling, anxious and coddled.
Pages: Passionate Attitudes
“Beardsley, like ‘decadence’, was new, diseased and curious in form – and, like the century, he was hastening towards his end.”
Pages: Passionate Attitudes
“Beardsley, like ‘decadence’, was new, diseased and curious in form – and, like the century, he was hastening towards his end.”
‘Hundreds of pages of nonsense?’
…or, the autobiography of the Baron de Redé, subject of a lecture by the book’s editor, Hugo Vickers.
‘Hundreds of pages of nonsense?’
…or, the autobiography of the Baron de Redé, subject of a lecture by the book’s editor, Hugo Vickers.
Pages: The Books of the Beast
This is a 1987 miscellany of pieces stretching back as much as twenty years prior. The title piece concerns the published works of Aleister Crowley, a figure of fascination for the author ever since he was disciplined at school for ordering The Great Beast.
Pages: The Books of the Beast
This is a 1987 miscellany of pieces stretching back as much as twenty years prior. The title piece concerns the published works of Aleister Crowley, a figure of fascination for the author ever since he was disciplined at school for ordering The Great Beast.
Julian Maclaren-Ross at 100
It’s hard to shake the suspicion that if an author of Julian Maclaren-Ross’s undeniable gifts and compelling myth had emerged anywhere else in Europe but Britain, his centenary would be a much bigger deal.
Julian Maclaren-Ross at 100
It’s hard to shake the suspicion that if an author of Julian Maclaren-Ross’s undeniable gifts and compelling myth had emerged anywhere else in Europe but Britain, his centenary would be a much bigger deal.
Strange Flowers 