Footnotes by Peter Fiennes

Footnotes by Peter Fiennes

Author:Peter Fiennes
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History;Nature;Britain;Literature;Writers;Walking;Wordsworth;Dickens;Enid Blyton;Wilkie Collins
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2019-07-26T15:25:11+00:00


In 1893 this nonsense was rocking them in the aisles in London, while Edith and Martin were working when they could on their one truly great novel, The Real Charlotte (the three, even greater, Irish R.M. books are collections of interconnected short stories). They had also discovered a demand for travel journalism, and had been making trips to Denmark and Connemara (on a cart). Their Welsh jaunt fitted into this series: there was money to be made and they could escape the financial anxieties of home for a while.

Edith and Martin left Welshpool abruptly (‘there are no suburbs’), breezing along ‘the white road stretching westward into the unknown’. The sun blazed from a cloudless sky, the hedgerows were soft and drowsy with dog roses and elder bushes of every shade of pink and cream, the honeysuckle flowered in thickets and intoxicating perfumes filled the air:

The thought of them takes the pen from the paper in indolent remembrance of that first ride between the Montgomery hedgerows, while yet the horse-flies had not discovered us, and while the hold-alls lay trim and deceptive in the straps that bound them to the saddles.



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