Tag: Beatrix Lehmann

• 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 childhood, but he is the precociously talented editor of a literary magazine and she is the most famous ballet dancer of generation. All goes well until baby Clare is born, when Miranda no…

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  August 27, 2012

  Beatrix Lehmann, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Mary Webb, Rumour of Heaven, rural idyll

• August Reading

  It hardly seems possible that August is here, the shops are already full of ‘Back to School’ displays, and summer will soon be over – though this year it never really seems to have started. Perhaps we’ll get an Indian Summer during the autumn, with plenty of sunshine. Anyway, I always find it comforting to…

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  July 31, 2012

  August reading, Beatrix Lehmann, Canada, Carol Ann Duffy, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Ireland, WB Yeats, Zora Neale Hurston