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A Heroine who is Hard to Like
Henrietta was third daughter and fifth child of Mr and Mrs Symons, so that enthusiasm for babies had declined in both parents by the time she arrived. Still, in her first few months she was bound to be important and take up a great deal of time. When she was two another boy was born,…
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Gardens and Wild Places
Two reviews today as I’m still trying to catch up on posts. The reading is more or less on track, but the writing isn’t! There’s a link of sorts between these books, since they are both about about the environment, with reflections about man’s place within it, and both authors are intelligent, articulate, passionate about…
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Gunpowder Plot
Not having written anything for a week, I think I’ve forgotten how to do it, so forgive me if this post doesn’t pan out quite as planned! I’ve been at my mother’s again, as she is still not well, and everything else seems to have gone by the board. However, I returned home to find…
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Downfall of a Victorian Fraudster
Jabez, pictured on the front cover, wasdescribed by contemporaries as being short and stout with spindly legs. Jabez Spencer Balfour was a Victorian businessman and MP who had some very creative accounting methods. When his fraud was discovered and his massive business empire collapsed, he ran away to Argentina with a young lady who was not…
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