In this issue
Amanda Theunissen heads for Chinese Turkestan • Alice O’Keeffe goes Cuban • Jeremy Lewis unearths the missing will • Ashley Harrold celebrates a very minor poet • Michele Hanson trails after Humphry Clinker • C. J. Wright saves the Punch table for the nation • Linda Leatherbarrow finds food for free • Jeremy Noel-Tod and Robert Macfarlane go night-climbing in Cambridge . . .
Social Climbing • JEREMY NOEL-TOD & ROBERT MACFARLANE
On The Night Climbers of Cambridge
A Chequered Career • JEREMY LEWIS
Michael Wharton, The Missing Will
Down and Out in Havana • ALICE O’KEEFFE
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, Dirty Havana Trilogy
Mr Smith Goes to Arcadia • RICHARD PLATT
Alexander Smith, Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
Optimistic Green Flags • LINDA LEATHERBARROW
Richard Mabey, Food for Free
Stinks and Germs • MICHELE HANSON
Tobias Smollett, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Imaginative Leaps • DUNCAN MINSHULL
Peter Schneider, The Wall Jumper
None of Her Business • SIMON LAWRENCE
On the works of Sarah Caudwell
A Most Unusual Memsahib • AMANDA THEUNISSEN
Lady Macartney, An English Lady in Chinese Turkestan
Between Two Worlds • A. E. ROBERTS
Alan Garner, Elidor
Just Getting on with It • A. F. HARROLD
On the poetry of William Cowper
Silly Suffolk • BRANWEN LUCAS
Julian Tennyson, Suffolk Scene
Chips with Everything • ANDREW MARTIN
On the works of Stephen Potter
Departed Grandeur • LUCY LETHBRIDGE
Roderick Grant, Strathalder
Straw Hat with Red Plaits • DAISY HAY
On the works of L. M. Montgomery
Confessions of a Manuscripts Curator • C. J. WRIGHT
On collecting ancient literature
About Slightly Foxed
The independent-minded quarterly that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. Slightly Foxed introduces its readers to books that are no longer new and fashionable but have lasting appeal. Good-humoured, unpretentious and a bit eccentric, it’s more like a well-read friend than a literary magazine. More . . .
- Bunt, Gary
- Caudwell, Sarah
- Cowper, William
- Garner, Alan
- Grant, Roderick
- Gutiérrez, Pedro Juan
- Hanson, Michele
- Harrold, A. F.
- Hay, Daisy
- Hederatus
- Lawrence, Simon
- Leatherbarrow, Linda
- Lethbridge, Lucy
- Lewis, Jeremy
- Lucas, Branwen
- Mabey, Richard
- Macartney, Catherine (Lady)
- Macfarlane, Robert
- Manuscripts
- Martin, Andrew
- Minshull, Duncan
- Montgomery, L. M.
- Noel-Tod, Jeremy
- O’Keeffe, Alice
- Pirkis, Gail & Wood, Hazel
- Platt, Richard
- Potter, Stephen
- Roberts, A. E.
- Schneider, Peter
- Smith, Alexander
- Smollett, Tobias
- Tennyson, Julian
- Theunissen, Amanda
- Wharton, Michael
- Whipplesnaith
- Wright, C. J.
Aldeburgh Beach
Branwen Lucas explores the towns, villages and coast of Suffolk with Julian Tennyson’s Suffolk Scene, a ‘sparkling record of his love affair with this often neglected part of East Anglia’. Her...
Read moreSocial Climbing
When I was an undergraduate at Oxford, a friend was billeted at the top of the tall college gatehouse. The stairs to her room were so many that, in case of fire, a long rope, bolted to the wall and...
Read moreA Chequered Career
I got to know Michael Wharton in the early 1980s, when I was working as an editor at Chatto & Windus. We had commissioned him to write what turned out to be The Missing Will, the first volume of his...
Read moreDown and Out in Havana
I knew what I wanted, and I went to Havana to find it. It was the university summer holidays. England was one long yawn, with its slow drizzle and its Third Way, the flat vowels of its politicians...
Read moreMr Smith Goes to Arcadia
In 1938, with the gloriously musical literary voices of Victoria’s reign just fading from living memory, Oxford University Press published English Prose of the Victorian Era. The table of contents...
Read moreOptimistic Green Flags
This morning, in the woods on Tooting Common, the sight of a young man plucking nettles and dropping them into a forage bag instantly reconnected me to my earlier life where ‘found food’ was a...
Read moreStinks and Germs
Last year I was invited to join a friend’s book group. I plodded through the book they’d chosen that week – a particularly ghastly and badly written effort by some minor celebrity – and...
Read moreImaginative Leaps
The Berlin Wall, a brutal, iconic structure made of concrete and barbed-wire, rose to split a city overnight in August 1961. Then just as quickly, and again overnight, it was breached in November...
Read moreNone of Her Business
Sarah Caudwell is the author of some of the most gloriously entertaining comic novels written since the war, but she seems to be almost unknown in this country. My relatives and friends have not...
Read moreA Most Unusual Memsahib
The verb ‘to travel’ could be parsed like this: I’m a traveller, you’re a tourist, he’s a tripper. Most of us, including me, are tourists, condemned to the soul-destroying procedures of...
Read moreBetween Two Worlds
I came late to magic. The stories of my childhood were mainly Greek myths (there was a Cyclops at the bottom of our garden) or the plots – with copious quotations – of Jane Austen’s novels, my...
Read moreJust Getting on with It
I remember hearing Leonard Cohen being interviewed some years ago, and he said, when asked whether he minded being referred to as a ‘minor poet’, that no he didn’t mind at all, in fact he had...
Read moreSilly Suffolk
The year 2004 was what I shall call my ‘Suffolk Year’, one in which I immersed myself in Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes through a workshop and performance at Covent Garden and a concert...
Read moreChips with Everything
I first encountered the work of Stephen Potter in a TV sketch show that conflated the great comedy quartet of his ‘Upmanship’ books: The Theory and Practice of Gamesmanship, Lifemanship,...
Read moreDeparted Grandeur
There are few things more guaranteed to provoke a pleasurable wallow in melancholy than a ruin. For me, exiled in Brooklyn, with temperatures rising, the air-conditioner on the blink and police...
Read moreStraw Hat with Red Plaits
Last summer, during a trip to Canada’s maritime provinces, my husband and I went on a literary pilgrimage. After attending a wedding in Nova Scotia we drove northwards across the Confederation...
Read moreConfessions of a Manuscripts Curator
Literary manuscripts began to be collected in the eighteenth century – though in the case of Shakespeare, none of whose handwriting was known to survive, with the exception of a few signatures, all...
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