The Twitnam Summer: Friendship, Satire and the Writing of Gulliver’s Travels Hester Grant, London: William Collins, 2026, hb., 336pps., £25 Early in the eighteenth century, the Middlesex village of Twickenham began to be noticed by Londoners wearying of the metropolis, drawn by the attractiveness of its Thames-side setting. One admirer was Alexander Pope, a poet… Continue reading →