Please do go visit my friend, The Perfumed Dandy, an excerpt from one of his exquisite pieces of fiction, masquerading as a critique on scent is below. As is a portrait of Lady Diana Cooper, who among other things, starred in two silent films, and wrote tons of letters. Some of those letters were to her son during WWII when he was evacuated from London to the United States. Darling Monster: The Letters of Lady Diana Cooper to her Son […]

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