Mrs. Humphry Ward, born Mary Augusta Arnold, won worldwide recognition with the publication of Robert Elsmere (1888), which dramatized for countless readers the loss of faith in orthodox Christianity that resulted from the development of evolutionary sci...
Critics naturally develop favorites as we try to distinguish successes from mediocrities. Knowing this, people often ask me which wineries to visit when they head to the Napa Valley, and for years my list has been headed by Joseph Phelps Vineyards in St. Helena,...
Singlehood is out. Matrimony is hip. For the unattached-and financially solvent-Helena Amram promises love, romance, maybe a lifetime mate. 'You know what you want,' she says, 'but I know what you need' A few years ago, about half my friends got married. Pushing...
A scorpion bit David Sullivan on the back of his right leg, just below the knee, then crawled up and down his left leg, he thinks, before getting him again in the shin.Not what he was expecting on his flight home from Chicago to Vermont.Sullivan,...
Following is a summary of people news briefs compiled from stories that have run separately and are available in full on the file. Helena Bonham Carter, Burton have second baby LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - British actress Helena Bonham Carter has given birth to...