The Quality of Love by Ariane Bankes review – delicious portrait of the Paget twins
Somewhere in her house – though not, I think, in an attic – Ariane Bankes keeps a battered tin trunk, the precious contents of which enabled her to write this short biography of her mother, Celia, and her aunt, Mamaine, who were identical twins. Such a project, though, was quite long in the gestation – Mamaine died before Bankes was born, in 1954, and Celia, who left her the trunk full of letters, in 2002 – and I wonder if this was because she...
2024-05-07T06:07:09Z