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Frances Wilson

Frances Wilson

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Books / A GP diagnosed me with ‘acute anxiety’ – only to exacerbate it

In 2008, after his first child was born and before he was due to get married, Tom Lee began to unravel. It was as if, he explains in his fragile and...

06.05.2024 40

The Spectator

Frances Wilson

Books / There’s nothing shameful about hypochondria

The hypochondriac is the butt of jokes. Even his butt is the butt of jokes. A story doing the  rounds in the 16th and 17th centuries concerned a...

13.04.2024 10

The Spectator

Frances Wilson

Books / The horrors of dining with a Roman emperor

Emperor of Rome? Is there a typo in the title? Mary Beard’s latest book is about not one but 30 Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar (assassinated 44...

14.12.2023 8

The Spectator

Frances Wilson

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