Anne Sebba's Blog, page 8
March 15, 2012
Wallis Simpson in Shanghai…again
A shorter version of this diary appeared in The Telegraph March 15th 2012 Researching my biography of Wallis Simpson in Shanghai a few years ago I had a hunch. Now I am here again trying to take that hunch one stage further even though my book has been published. In 2010, I believed I [...]
March 10, 2012
The American view of Wallis Simpson and my book
Three new reviews this March weekend. Liesl Schillinger in the New York Times Sunday book review wrote:
February 24, 2012
Visiting Germany in 2012
Travelling to Germany to give lectures this week, I go first to the pretty medieval town of Osnabr
January 23, 2012
Archiving for the future
I had an exciting invitation recently; the British Library asked permission to archive my website. Well, who wouldn
January 22, 2012
Sympathy for the devil-woman by Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday 22.01.2012
There have been several attempts to demythologise the relationship between Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII. It is variously alleged that she never really loved him and he never really loved her, or that theirs was a great love affair that the establishment tried to destroy. And of course, there is that photograph of the pair [...]
January 18, 2012
"This Enjoyable Biographical Romp"
Inevitably, this enjoyable biographical romp mentions Wallis Simpson's rumoured sexual technique, "the Baltimore grip, Singapore squeeze or Chinese clinch". Sebba dismisses such theories… The Independent January 26 2012
December 12, 2011
Handling history and handling crowns
I went to Spitalfields last week to see a lost edition of The Illustrated London News prepared for the May, 1937 Coronation of Edward Vlll which never happened.
December 2, 2011
Talk about That Woman
Giving a talk about That Woman
November 9, 2011
That Woman CD
Anne Sebba, read by Samantha Bond Publication date: 24/11/2011 Unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hours – 9781409143550,
