The Book Trunk

This site is dedicated to my grandmother, who ran away from her Norwegian home in 1915 and arrived in England with nothing but a trunk full of books.

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Showing posts with label Elizabeth von Arnim. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Elizabeth von Arnim. Show all posts

Wednesday, 19 September 2012

A Barrowful of Bacon, and Coffee by the Tubload

It's September, and Elizabeth von Arnim's Solitary Summer has run its course with the arrival of 500 soldiers (and their horses), w...

Sunday, 19 August 2012

Lupins, Radishes, and Triangular Dances

August has come, and has clothed the hills with golden lupins, and filled the grassy banks with harebells. The yellow fields of lupins are s...

Monday, 16 July 2012

The Solitary Summer in July

Well, it's mid-way through July already, so I thought I'd take take a quick look at the month's happenings in Elizabeth von Arni...

Friday, 15 June 2012

A Garden by Moonlight

Right, here is this month's instalment from Elizabeth von Arnim's The Solitary Summer , which I was going to post tomorrow, since o...

Sunday, 27 May 2012

What a Blessing it is to Love Books - and Gardens

The cover on my 1992 Virago edition bears a detail from Vase aux Anemones, 1942, by Marevn (Maria Morobieff) This week I have been busy...

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