Women have forsaken their own creative pursuits to rally around celebrated husbands. Books like ‘The Chosen’ and ‘Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life’ and films like ‘Maestro’ and ‘Priscilla’ are now recasting spouses as historical actors in the tales of artistic achievements
Just William's Luck: Comedy, starring William Graham. Just William's Luck airs on Talking Pictures TV at 9:45 AM, Saturday 10 February. Comedy, starring William Graham
The counties of West Lothian, East Lothian and Midlothian surround Edinburgh, and contain a spectacular range of architecture and archaeological remains. It is all superbly catalogued in the newly revised Lothian edition of the Pevsner series Buildings of Scotland (Yale, £45). The volume covers Lowland towns such as South Queensferry, with its distinctive tolbooth steeple from the 1720s; Gifford, with its stark but handsome kirk of the same period; and Haddington, birthplace of Jane Welsh Carlyl