Books March 2013 All that glitters by Ben Downing A review of The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess---in Her Own Words by Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan.
Books October 2012 Of nobs & nimrods by Ben Downing A review of Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West 1830-1890 by Peter Pagnamenta.
Books June 2012 A haunted, haunting life by Ben Downing A review of Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life by Natalie Dykstra.
Features November 2011 John Addington Symonds & Janet Ross: a friendship by Ben Downing On the warm friendship between the art historian & the Anglo-Florentine writer.