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  • Ms. MacCarthy paints a lively portrait of Burne-Jones's circle, including the dark sides: John Ruskin with his preference for prepubescent girls, the poet Algernon Swinburne's enthusiasm for self-flagellation and de Sade.

    A Penchant for Dreaming Henrik Bering 2012

  • Ms. Swinburne's influence over Mifid II reaches far and wide.

    Meet FN's Top 100 Women in Finance Yasmine Chinwala 2011

  • He turned to the title-page ... yes, he had written other books; well, he would go to the free library the first thing in the morning and try to get hold of some of Swinburne's stuff.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • A few years before this, Swinburne's friend, the redoubtable equestrienne Adah Mencken, had complained to

    'The Oxford Book of Parodies' 2010

  • But essentially the poem is about Swinburne's sexuality.

    'The Oxford Book of Parodies' 2010

  • UPDATE: Dylan Jones-Evans seems to share Kay Swinburne's view.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • The way Ives tells it, complete with gestures, he leaned across his cluttered desk, knocking a volume of Swinburne's poetry to the floor, and said softly, "I have the perfect summer position for you."

    Nutrition 2010

  • Swinburne's per-share earnings estimates call for $1.74 this year and $1.90 next year.

    Dan Dorfman: If You're A Bull, What Do You Buy? 2009

  • Swinburne's choice of such forms is all of a piece with his love of repeating grammatical constructions, those mirrors and antitheses that create a swirling or to-and-fro motion.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Swinburne's choice of such forms is all of a piece with his love of repeating grammatical constructions, those mirrors and antitheses that create a swirling or to-and-fro motion.

    Great Regulars: Its form, a variant of the French form Rus Bowden 2009

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