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Theatre Critic of the Observer. Author of 'A Card from Angela Carter' and 'With Chatwin'.
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Susannah Clapp · At the King’s Gallery: Royal Frocks

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It is​ a fascinating and fawning exhibition. At the King’s Gallery (until 18 October) some three hundred items of clothing belonging to Queen Elizabeth II are displayed – headless, limbless, fleshless – like the remains of extinct animals. Norman Hartnell supplies silky flamboyance and encrustations: lace re-embroidered with sequins and crystals. Hardy Amies, fresh from a ‘distinguished career as a spy’, offers a see-through mac and trim day dress praised for being figure-flattering but ‘demure’.
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Susannah Clapp · Little Mags

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By Susannah Clapp Verified
| London Review of Books Verified
Little magazines​ : big guns. It is hard to overestimate the high hopes and strong feelings swirling around papers which are small in funds and circulation but large in aspiration. For a time the London Review of Books might have been considered a little magazine: uncertain of its future but clear it wanted to put a spoke in the Falklands War.
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Susannah Clapp · On Soaps

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By Susannah Clapp Verified
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Not exactly​ an addiction but a compulsion. When I started to write full-time about the theatre, I was fixated on television soaps. Not all of them. I didn’t have an afternoon habit. Just EastEnders, which I had watched from the beginning (and failed to persuade the then editor would be a subject for this paper), Coronation Street and Brookside.
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