"It is audacity to write about anyone from the past. One can never know what their jokes were, their sophisticated nuances. One will take seriously what they laughed at and laugh at what they felt seriously about." James Lees-Milne, diary, December 17, 1972 Continue reading Almanac: James Lees-Milne on a fundamental problem of biography at About Last Night.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:01AM on February 12, 2020