Archive for August, 2010

Travels In Yorkshire

 


I am certain that there are many on both sides of the Atlantic who consider my observations on the United Kingdom eccentric, to say the least. I am equally certain that anyone who understands or shares the lifelong habit of reading that I have both cherished and cultivated will recognize (or at least identify) the origin of many of my interests—or obsessions, if you please. Having spent years reading works by such authors as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, the Brontës, Angela Thirkell, Stella Gibbons, Arthur Ransome, Beatrix Potter, Anthony Trollope, T.H. White, Kenneth Grahame, James Herriot, Edith Nesbit, Enid Blyton, Thomas Hardy, Agatha Christie, Julian Barnes, Jane Austen, Frances Burney, Mary Webb, E.F. Benson, George Borrow, Charles Kingsley, John Buchan, A.A. Milne, P.G. Wodehouse, Saki, Max Beerbohm, Anthony Powell, Elizabeth GaskellEvelyn Waugh, and many others, I am very likely the victim, in a manner of speaking, of their combined influence, and it should surprise no one to learn that until just a few years ago, the perspective on Great Britain and the British gained by reading the works of these writers was truly the only one I had, if one discounts hours spent watching British films and television programs. I will, you will be pleased to hear, forgo listing any of the latter.


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Travels In Suffolk

 


A British acquaintance once referred to Suffolk as “The Land that Time Forgot,” and in some ways I can see how that might be a common perception. After all, towns such as Lavenham, where I began my recent excursion, flourished during the boom provided by the wool and cloth trade, but that was largely during the reign of Henry VII, or even earlier, and much of the village preserves the look of that period.


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