The Independent - London, November 13th, 1994
LATE IN life, Lord Curzon would muse about "the eternal gullibility of children" on the subject of where babies come from. In his own youth, he had been told that his many younger brothers and sisters originated in a clump of nettles in the woods at his father's ancestral home at Kedleston. He recalled that he used to command expeditions to find fresh ones. "We always thought it an extraordinary place for them to be found," he wrote. "But it never occurred to us to doubt it."
A willingness to accept dominant myths is the theme of this absorbing, witty and intelligent biography. There never wa...
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