Commonplace 224 George & Forster's Life. With paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). If he is remembered for anything, J...

Commonplace 243 George & History. George liked the past. Not his own, perhaps, but the past as recreated by middle class and above ma...

Commonplace 242 George & An Outburst On Gissing. No, not me this time - but Douglas Goldring (1887-1960). Douglas Goldring  by El...

Commonplace 241 George & His Contemporaries - Israel Zangwill Israel Zangwill  We have seen (in Commonplaces 80 and 81) how Frede...

Commonplace 240  George & His Tendency To Tyranny  PART TWO. George was, to say the very least, critical of his second wife, Edith. O...

Commonplace 239  George & His Tendency to Tyranny. PART ONE  Part of the Jake and Dinos Chapman Installation at White Cube Galle...

Commonplace 238    George & the Curse of Henry Maitland's Flaming Trousers. There is nothing in the world more shameful than esta...