🏛️ Politics 14h ago · Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Jan Morris’s defiant life

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He was a man: then she was a woman. He, and then she, wrote some of the most mellifluous and evocative prose composed in English in the past 100 years: he and then she was a hack who recycled past writings shamelessly. He and then she was a prompt and punctilious journalist, who always met a word-count exactly: he and then she rewarded a generous and patient publisher by throwing tantrums over jacket design and sales figures. He and then she was a surface-dweller seduced by the “aesthetic” of Br

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