I'm back from a week in Pembrokeshire (my happy place) 🌅
St. David's cathedral had a secondhand book sale: I found this. Didn't have my reading glasses with me that day so couldn't tell exactly what I'd found. I just recognised it was DT. 😄
(Also, I was evidently on a mission to collect every piece of sea glass that was on the beach!)
pp.170-71: '[Hardy] was always exceptionally anxious and sensitive about reviews.... He might have spared himself the trouble: the divide between those who disliked his language, his lower-class characters, his troubling women and his gloom, and those who appreciated the beauty and imaginative power of his work, was already there and remained firmly fixed throughout his career as a novelist.'
p. 147: '[Hardy's] is a voice that speaks to readers in many countries and to which successive generations have responded. With this voice Hardy established the territory in which he worked best in fiction, in which rural landscape is drawn with a naturalist's eye and country people are shown playing out their lives "between custom and education, between work and ideas, between love of place and experience of change."' (Raymond Williams)
I'm sooooooooooo behind on Litsy everything but for a good reason: May was packed with travel, and the most important part of it was visiting Jane Austen's House in Chawton. 😍😍😍 A true Janeite dream come true, especially in this epic 250th birthday year.
repost for @AllDebooks:
Our #VirginiaBloomsberries June #buddyread is Harriet Baker's 2024 group biography of VW, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamund Lehmann, observing how their lives were changed by their move to the country.
https://mirandasnotebook.com/blog/harrietbaker
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Our #VirginiaBloomsberries June #buddyread is Harriet Baker's 2024 group biography of VW, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamund Lehmann, observing how their lives were changed by their move to the country.
https://mirandasnotebook.com/blog/harrietbaker
All are welcome to join us. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.
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panVery dense, especially the last third or so. I can‘t say I‘ve read any other metabiographies, as the author describes the genre, so perhaps this is par for the course. I did learn some things, though.
On Oct 30, 2024, I accidentally left this book in Los Angeles. It was easily replaceable but the Stonehenge bookmark from our first trip to England was not. Thanks to my cousin Summer, both book and bookmark arrived back at my house in Utah on Apr 26, 2025!
