Biography Archives | Lucienne Boyce

Mary Neal and the Suffragettes Who Saved Morris Dancing, Kathryn Atherton (Pen & Sword, 2024)

On the face of it, any connection between the suffragette movement and the folk dance revival seems a tenuous one. If all there is to connect them is that some …

The Victims of War

I’ve just got back from a trip to the Netherlands, where I went to visit places associated with my work in progress, a biography of suffrage campaigner and pacifist Millicent …

My Month in Books: August 2021

The books I enjoyed most this month were Dreaming of Rose: A Biographer’s Journal by Sarah Lefanu, which shares insights into the process of writing a biography, and Monica Dickens’s …

The Father of Virginia Woolf: Women and the Essay

I recently read A C Grayling’s biography The Quarrel of the Age: The Life and Times of William Hazlitt (2000). It’s the fascinating story of a fascinating man, elegantly written …