The Book Trunk

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  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading