A prime minister and his A-list of friends of the Edwardian period, and just after it, made much of the word ‘darling’ in their intimate correspondence, Bee Wilson explains in an approving critique in the London Review of Books.
Bee (latest book First Bite: How We Learn to Eat) obviously relished the references in My Darling Mr Asquith: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Venetia Stanley by Stefan Buczacki (Cato and Clarke).