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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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Fairy Tales of Ireland

Fairy Tales of Ireland by WB Yeats , published by Young Lions, is a magical, lyrical collection of 20 stories chosen from those collected...

Monday, 27 August 2012

A Mad Mother and a 'Well Hidden' Family

Queen Victoria was on the throne of England when William Peacock married Miranda Mirova . The couple are very young, barely out of childhoo...

Saturday, 25 August 2012

A Place where Lepers were Outcast...

We passed this sign whilst out walking during our Cumbrian holiday. It's the name of an area, like a hamlet, which is certainly not bi...

Monday, 20 August 2012

Woods, Sea and Stars...

Woods etc. has a rather plain cover, so instead, here is a picture in Seawood, at Bardsea, Cumbria. I love Alice Oswald's 'Dart...

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...

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