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By Michael Holroyd
Acclaimed biographer Holroyd here turns his attention to a villa in Italy and the women who, in the early 20th century, moved through its rooms—all of them connected (fiancée, lover, daughter) to an English aristocrat, Ernest Beckett. The result is a series of delightful cameo portraits and a dexterous meditation on the art of biography itself.