Miriam Gross

Diary – 19 November 2005

The connection between Joan Collins and the novelist Anthony Powell

issue 19 November 2005

I’d never have guessed that there was a connection between Joan Collins and the novelist Anthony Powell, the centenary of whose birth is being commemorated with an exhibition at the Wallace Collection. But there is, as I discovered quite by chance 20 years ago when I went to interview Powell to mark his 80th birthday.

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