Tag: diary

• Love Among the Butterflies

  One of my daughters took this photograph in the museum at Plymouth. The butterflies on display are not from Margaret Fountaine’s collection, but I like the picture! Margaret Fountaine was a feisty Victorian Englishwoman of independent means who travelled the world for 50 years collecting butterflies, and was totally unfazed by the unaccustomed situations and…

  chrisharding53

  September 10, 2012

  Butterflies. Victorian, diary, Margaret Fountaine, Travel

• The Provincial Lady in a Floral Cover

  I picked this up in the Oxfam shop (again), but I think it looks like abook on needlework, or a notebook,or drawliners, or writing paper. I started reading EM Delafield’s The Diary of a Provincial Lady online at Project Gutenberg Australia, which has all kinds of books unavailable on the British site, but they can’t…

  chrisharding53

  July 5, 2012

  book cover, diary, EM Delafield, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, The Diary of a Provincial Lady, Virago Modern Classics