Tender-coloured sky
Elizabeth Gaskell was a Victorian novelist and a friend of Charlotte Bronte, whose biography she wrote. I see her as...
Gently-swelling meadow
George Eliot lived during the height of the Industrial Revolution, with several of her books being set earlier in its...
Many-windowed factory
The Hale family’s first sight of their new home is grim and constrained, comprising small, brick houses dotted among ‘many-windowed...
A sunny spot to read
I fell in love with this room when I saw this sunlit painting. The Victorian artist has captured a perfect...
Wave-girt land
A little old-fashioned, this 'girt', but still an unexpected way to speak of an island, focusing more on its surrounding...
Self-renewing meadow
An image of ancient sustainability, a meadow which has renewed itself for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years, and with...
Rheumy-eyed earl
Adam Nicolson appears to have grown up among the casual antiquity of aristocratic homes, leaving him with the childhood memory...
Barnacle-encrusted boulders
The clingon power of the barnacle is astonishing, as anyone who ever tried to prise them off the rocks in...
A singing map
I loved this idea, using a song to guide you in lieu of a map. From one of Rory Stewart's...
Lead-coloured cloud
This ‘lead-covered’ cloud symbolises the mood of the family as they approach the ‘grim North’, and soon they smell the...
Green on green
A lovely description and an idyllic image of an English county.
‘Herefordshire is green on green, lichen on old apple...
Of centuries and cows
These quirky comments by Steinbeck charmed me - first his reaction to the first room he chose to work in,...
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