Anthony Blunt liked to invent original special subjects” for third-year undergraduates. One of them was “19th-century art criticism in England and France”. Anita Brookner taught our students about Baudelaire while I was deputed to introduce them to Ruskin and Pater. This was in 1966.
Thus we formed an unlikely friendship. Anita would never enter a pub,but we sometimes had a drink in a tiny cafe opposite the Archives Nationales in Paris, and she liked lunching in the restaurant at Fenwick’s in Bond Street. A quarter of a trout would fill her.
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Source: theguardian.com