Dot Wordsworth

Mind your language | 1 March 2008

Dot Wordsworth looks into the Borromean Index

issue 01 March 2008

My husband went to a medical conference, paid for by a pharmaceutical company, in Padua, where the university has been teaching medicine since the 14th century. So I went too and popped over to Venice, taking with me Mrs Ruskin.

I mean Effie, who, poor thing, ran away from John Ruskin in 1854 after six years of marriage when he had still not steeled himself to do the deed.

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