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Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
~ For discussion from Saturday, 25th. April

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Mist and murk

We had a misty walk with the dogs first thing this morning, and when I got a better look at this picture which I took while picking my way across lake-size frozen puddles and frosted grass, it reminded me of something:

I can recommend the book (more here).

17 February 2011 in Flowers and gardens | Permalink

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A friend has just passed this book over to me with great enthusiasm. She tells me it was the best book she read last year, (and that all her book group loved it), so with two good endorsements, I must make a start this weekend.

Posted by: Anne | 17 February 2011 at 03:25 PM

I hope you will enjoy it, Anne, as I remember it as being excellent!

Posted by: Cornflower | 17 February 2011 at 04:51 PM

That's a beautiful, beautiful photograph, Cornflower!

Posted by: Margaret Powling | 17 February 2011 at 08:37 PM

Thankyou, Margaret. It was taken on my phone - and in a rush - so a bit hit or miss, but it has come out alright.

Posted by: Cornflower | 17 February 2011 at 10:13 PM

How funny - a friend sent me this book for Christmas as she knows I am a Derbyshire girl - many of my family still live near Eyam (pronounced eem), the famous plague village. I noticed it again last night, still unread, and made a note to open it today and make a start.

Posted by: marge | 18 February 2011 at 09:20 AM

Coincidence, indeed, Marge.

Posted by: Cornflower | 18 February 2011 at 08:18 PM

There is an influence of A.E. Housman in some of Brooks' work. "Justify God's ways to man" in Year of Wonders, and also a quote in one of her Washington Post articles at http://www.thehopefund.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Arms_Boy.pdf

A Derbyshire girl and a Shropshire Lad.

Posted by: Reader | 16 September 2014 at 06:33 PM

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