In Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet, Jessie Buckley gives a tour de force as Anne Hathaway, the wife and mother William Shakespeare never ...

She was her mother’s handmaiden and aide-de-camp. In 1993, her blockbuster biography told of the awful price she paid.

Urmila Seshagiri was researching Virginia Woolf's unpublished autobiography when she uncovered a revised version of ...

Francesca Wade’s biography tells the life of the modernist American writer and her famed social life in Paris, and of how her ...

Prunella Scales, the British actress best known for her role as Sybil Fawlty, the unflappable foil to John Cleese as her ...

A new biography deconstructs some of the most persistent myths around Gertrude Stein’s legacy.

Kennedy', as the series will be known, promises to uncover the 'intimate truths' at the heart of the America's first family.

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Hall's Croft, once the residence of Susanna Shakespeare, is now in stable condition as experts assess the repairs that will ...

The Aretha Franklin biopic Respect, from 2021, is a standard-issue piece of awards bait, but it comes alive when Franklin, ...

Maggie O’Farrell is one of the United Kingdom’s greatest living writers. When the Northern Irish author took on the personal life of our greatest ever, one William Shakespeare, it was a bestselling ...