Kathryn Hughes Quotes

United Kingdom, Academic
January 1, 1959

Kathryn Hughes is a British academic, journalist and biographer. Educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University and the University of East Anglia; her doctorate in Victorian history was developed into her first book, The Victorian Governess. She is the Director of Creative Non-Fiction at the University of East Anglia.

Also known as Journalist, Biographer

Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.

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Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.

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