![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having immersed herself in the many volumes, annotated and unexpurgated, of Pepys's daily (and nightly) doings, she thought she would try to construct a life of his wife, Elizabeth. It wasn't, but the book she set to write in her 60s didn't happen either. It wasn't very good, and I often wondered if that was to be my one and only book." I got £25 for it it was a rivetting publication called Questions and Answers on Private International Law. "When I was 21 and very newly called to the Bar, I did write a book. It wasn't till Picard retired as a lawyer with the Inland Revenue - "I couldn't wait and neither could they there were mutual sighs of relief" - that the chance to realise a long-held ambition came. I am a lawyer by trade, and an inquisitive, practical woman by character." But Johnson would applaud Picard's frank declaration of where she's coming from: "I am not a properly trained historian. ![]()
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