On life and writing: the fast and the slow of it
I was charmed by Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, wishing I could reverse time's arrow to accompany her on a walk to...
Enchanting woods and beautiful trees
The detail, delicacy and richness of Dorothy Wordsworth's descriptions of nature are worthy of Thoreau (whose journal I am now...
Flowering and marking
Dorothy Wordsworth refers to 'flowering and marking', meaning to embroider identification signs on linen. Â IÂ recently bought some wonderful, secondhand and...
A real craving of nature
Branwell Bronte, the sister-eclipsed son in a family of six, caused them and his father great heartache through alcoholism and...
The moon shone upon the water below
I liked this expansive moon-scape and the detail of Wordworth keeping his curtains open to see it.
'The...
Clapping linen
This seems to mean something like smoothing out and folding linen, though it would baffle people now.
'Mary...
The impatient shout of a thrush
A few years ago I noted Keats' delight in a thrush in his garden, and so found a kindred...
The brimming basin of the sea
When I read this description of the sea I thought immediately of the photo you see featured here, which I...
The cow looked at me looking at the cow
Having done this a number of times, I smiled when I read Dorothy's dilemma in passing the cow. They have...
Bristled serpents of ivy
A perfect description of those thick cords of ivy rope that wrap themselves around trees, eventually suffocating them.
Need some negus?
A hot drink of port, sugar, lemon, and spice, named after a Colonel Francis Negus (d. 1732), who invented it. ...
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