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In a letter to his patron Harriet Shaw Weaver as he sought psychiatric treatment for his daughter Lucia, struggled with his failing eyesight and laboured to finish Work in Progress, which would become Finnegans Wake, the Irish author James Joyce with a flash of defiance wrote that 'nobody has ever written English prose that can be compared with that...

'M'appari' is the best known name for the central aria from Friedrich von Flotow's Martha, a romantic comic opera in four acts. Flotow - who was born into a musical family, his mother playing the piano and his father the flute - composed some thirty operas during his lifetime, beginning his career after studying at the Conservatoire de Paris, before...

In the final decade of the eighteenth century, stirred by the ideals of the French Revolution, the top hat replaced the tricorne as the vogue item of headwear for fashionable Europeans. Already popular in France where it would become part of the costume of the Incroyables, the first top hat in England has been credited to the Frenchman George...