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A Wiltshire Diary by Francis Kilvert
Category: Biography Memoir | Series: English Journeys
Francis Kilvert's diary shows a compassionate and thoughtful delight in the people and beautiful surroundings of the English countryside. With good cheer he records his loves (among them poetry and the attentions of pretty girls) and his dislikes (including a distaste for bathing in knickers that leaves ...Show more
English Journeys: A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman
Category: Poetry | Series: English Journeys
This magical and poignant evocation of coming of age in the countryside describes lovers in secluded lanes, cricket and church bells, cherry trees hung with snow and woods full of bluebells. Yet in "A Shropshire Lad" the fields and hills are also places of loss and sorrow, where men die young or are sen ...Show more
English Journeys: Birds of Selborne by Gilbert White
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: English Journeys
The letters of the eminent naturalist Gilbert White are full of precise, unaffected and delightful observations of the wildlife of his beloved village of Selborne, describing the habits, colours and songs of birds from lapwings to barn-owls, wrens to house-martins. Here too are exquisite writings on tre ...Show more
English Journeys: Cathedrals and Castles by Henry James
Category: History | Series: English Journeys
The American Henry James' descriptions of the countryside, monuments, universities, cathedrals, castles, customs and manners of the English are filled with elegant charm and good humour. Here he delights in the hidden corners of ancient Chester streets, marvels at the drunken jollity of Epsom Derby day ...Show more
English Journeys: Country Lore And Legends by Jacqueline Simpson
Category: Stationery & Gift | Series: English Journeys
From stone-throwing Cornish giants to a haunted Northumberland mine, from the ghostly Mistletoe Bride of Oxfordshire to the 'bloody hand' in a Kent church, here are the myths, legends and supernatural stories that have been passed down through the generations all over England. Containing tales of fairie ...Show more
English Journeys: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Other Poems by Thomas Gray
Category: Poetry | Series: English Journeys
The English countryside has inspired some of the most exquisite and well-loved poetry ever composed in the language. This selection of verse includes, among others, Thomas Gray's reflective and moving meditation on mortality, 'Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard', the soaring beauty of Wordsworth's l ...Show more
English Journeys: English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Category: Fiction | Series: English Journeys
This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs ...Show more
English Journeys: From Dover To Thewen by William Cobbett
Category: Travel | Series: English Journeys
Touring the southern counties of England by foot and on horseback from the white cliffs of Dover to the heart of the countryside, William Cobbett recorded a swiftly changing way of life with energy, wit, passion and principle. Here he juxtaposes lyrical evocations of oaken wealds, cornfields, rolling do ...Show more
English Journeys: Let Us Now Praise Famous Gardens by Vita Sackville-West
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants | Series: English Journeys
In this unique gardening chronicle Vita Sackville-West weaves together simple, honest accounts of her horticultural experiences throughout the year with exquisite writing and poetic description. Whether singing the praises of sweet-briar, cyclamen, Indian pinks and the Strawberry grape, or giving practi ...Show more
English Journeys: Life at Grasmere by Dorothy Wordsworth
Category: Stationery & Gift | Series: English Journeys
The beautiful and peaceful heart of the Lake District, Grasmere was an inspiration to both Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Hills, lakes and orchards, letter writing, walks and welcome visitors (including fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge) provoked in Dorothy's journal great, lyrical prose, which in tu ...Show more
English Journeys: The Beauties of a Cottage Garden by Gertrude Jekyll
Category: Gardening Landscape Plants | Series: English Journeys
This is a celebration of the beauties and possibilities of Heliotrope and Honeysuckle, Auricula, Snapdragon, Spanish Iris and Corydalis, and all the other plants that enliven and exalt the gardens of England. Gertrude Jekyll gives good advice on how to make a garden a place of repose and pleasure. Writi ...Show more
English Journeys: The Pleasures of English Food by Alan Davidson
Category: Food and Drink | Series: English Journeys
Stargazey pie, Cheshire cheese, toffee apples, fish and chips, Sussex pond pudding, Cumberland sausages, pasties, gingerbread, dumplings and Cox's orange pippins are just some of the edible delights in this glorious celebration of English food from across the country and its history. From the etiquette ...Show more