Before turning to Surtees, she had successfully put her grandfather, the Scottish painter Alexander Mann, on the map
Before turning to Surtees, she had successfully put her grandfather, the Scottish painter Alexander Mann, on the map
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It was Jean’s passion for riding that reputedly inspired her mother’s friend the novelist Enid Bagnold to write National Velvet
She also starred in Alan Bennett's TV monologues and played the BBC's amateur sleuth Hetty Wainthropp.
He combined scrupulous technical accuracy with a dramatic sense of the emotion of movement
A connoisseur of the offbeat, he interviewed the last human cannonball and wrote a superb biography of the eccentric poet RS…
Two recent graphic biographies of Jane Austen, reviewed by Hank Kennedy.
From her assistance with crosswords to a wink that set a career in motion, Guardian readers share favourite memories of the actor
