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• Patricia Brent, Spinster

  Think Fairy Tales…  And Love at First Sight… And Obstacles Overcome…  And Rags to Riches…  And Happy Ever After…  Patricia Brent, Spinster, by Herbert George Jenkins, is all these, and is one of the most delightful books I’ve read this year. If you liked Winifred Watson’s Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day you will love…

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  April 27, 2015

  early 20th century literature, fashion 1918, Herbert Jenkins, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, romantic comedy

• Magical Moorlands

  I read this on my Kindle, so there’s no cover toadmire, but I could resist including this pictureof the ‘real’ book. I don’t ever remember learning about moors when I did ‘A’ level geography at school. Glaciation, yes. Vulcanicity, yes. Limestone scenery, yes. But moors, no. Like Hartley’s past, they are a foreign country, and…

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  April 2, 2015

  http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, landscape, language, moors, William Atkins

• Poems for Spring

  Every year, some time in February or March, depending on the vagaries of the English weather, there comes a sunny day when I walk through the Castle Grounds and smell flowery perfume on a warm breeze, and every year I think ‘how wonderful, spring is on the way’. Doubtlessly there’s a very logical explanation, because…

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  March 9, 2015

  Carl Sandberg, flowers, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Kathleen Jamie, Nature, perfume, Poems, Spring, The Dash

• Sky Bears and Kissing Planets

  Just look what I’ve got… The Stargazers’ Almanac! Isn’t it beautiful? It gives a month by month account of what can be seen in the night sky, with lovely clear maps looking north and south, so you won’t miss anything. I have Lynne at Dove Grey Reader to thank for this discovery, because she mentioned…

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  February 26, 2015

  constellations, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Mars, moon, planets, Stargazers Almanac, stars, Stories in the Stars

• An Impossible Marriage

  Right, after Margery Sharp here’s another New-to-Me novelist to enthuse about – Pamela Hansford Johnson who was, apparently, immensely popular from the late 1930s through to the 1960s, but seems to have been largely forgotten in recent years. I’ve seen a couple of blog posts about her, and read reviews of Wendy Pollard’s ‘Pamela Hansford…

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  February 18, 2015

  1930s, 1950s novel, Bello digital re-issues, forgotten novel, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Pan Mamillan