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Sophie Dahl: what my grandmother’s dressing table means to me — The Times and The Sunday Times Sophie Dahl, Lunatic Asylum, My Grandmother, The Times, Dressing Table, Fashion Makeup, Art

My great-grandmother Marion was born in one of the poorest wards in Glasgow in 1872. She was a milliner who was left widowed at a young age with two small children, after her first husband died in the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum at Gartnavel. Five years later she quietly married a retired engineer, 20 years her senior, and together they moved from Scotland to Leeds. It was there my grandmother Violet was born. After a staid childhood, and much to her strict Presbyterian parents’ horror…

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Author Sophie Dahl on her favourite things British Models, Sophie Dahl, Lily Donaldson, Lisa Eldridge, Scarlet Violet, Rosy Brown, Salted Chocolate, The Perfect Christmas, Harper’s Bazaar

Author Sophie Dahl on her favourite things THE CANDLE I LOVE TO LIGHT IS… Diptyque’s wonderful Baies, or Odalisque by Cire Trudon. MY SIGNATURE LIPSTICK IS… Lisa Eldridge’s Velvet Muse. It’s a beautiful, rosy brown, and is infinitely wearable. MY FAVOURITE INDEPENDENT SHOP IS… The Winding Stair bookshop in Dublin. Old books, new books and a cafe. Heaven. I’m also a fan of Lassco salvage yards. MY FOODIE WEAKNESS IS… Salted chocolate in any form. for FLOWERS, I CALL… Scarlet & Violet. Vic

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