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Well before Byron, long before Lawrence, a Nottingham writer was living a truly revolutionary life... Lucy Hutchinson was the earliest and most rebellious of Nottingham’s writers. Her Me...

I was curious to see how Lady in a Veil would transfer to Zoom, doubting the technology would support it easily. So far Lady Mary had thrived on the warmth of performing to people in the same room wit...

 The Walled-Up Woman: Live Performance at the ExtremesWhat if the future of performance isn’t on a screen? What if live performance needs to concentrate on the local?  As cities empty, what if the...

  Lady Mary will be zooming for the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution at 4pm on 14th March. Tickets will be available on line from the HLSI. She will also be zooming via Chawton House, H...

The picture is of Lady Mary in Turkish dress, which she wore in Constantinople. She describes it one of her many letters to her sister, the Countess of Mar, who was exiled in Paris - having married a ...

I attended this fascinating workshop on the basis that in a time of hand sewing, Tudor garments had developed from Medieval principles. Pictures from both periods show layering against temperatures w...

Timeliness of both solo shows? Yes. Accidental but considerable - and a bit strange.  I had wanted to write a performance about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ever since I reread her letters with a view t...