Jenny Uglow and John Whiting

 

BY PETER STOTHARD

Jenny Uglow's artful history of the home front against Napoleon takes me back to a play first produced in the year that I was born - and  enjoyed by me in various ways in various later years. From this week's TLS, which also includes a great piece by Emily Wilson on Jimmy Savile.

Last week Bee Wilson was on the TLS cover. This week Emily. Our letters page still resounds with their father, A.N. Wilson's views on translations of Proust. A rare and fine conjunction.