King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.