Category: England
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Between Knole and Sissinghurst
Book Review: Vita: the Life of V. Sackville-West by Victoria Glendinning, published by Phoenix, London, 1983. (5 out of 5 stars). I really enjoyed this book. Victoria Glendinning is a very skilled and fluent writer, like (I think) a higher percentage of British than US writers. If the author is one of those highly articulate…
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Innocence and Impecuniousness
Book Review: Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, published by Modern Library (Random House), New York, 2002. (5 out of 5 stars). This novel was the first written by Austen (around 1803 when she was 28) but was not published until 1817, after her death, so she likely didn’t pick the title – I’m not sure…
Heard and Seen Around Town 