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Crossing the Bar Find!
29 September 2009 Still one of our finest and best-loved Poet Laureates, one of Alfred Tennyson's best-loved poems, and coincidentally among his shorter ones, is Crossing the Bar, published in 1889 and written in 20 minutes after setting out from Lymington on the... Read more or Comment
Growing up in Portsmouth Find!
29 September 2009 Is growing up in Portsmouth more frustrating than growing up anywhere else? It certainly seems to be for 13-year-old Jake as he struggles to make sense of the urban domesticity of 1980s Portsmouth. Read more in 'Glasshopper' (Myriad Press 2009),... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
More Edward Thomas Find!
28 September 2009 Edward Thomas's classic account of a year spent wandering across the south of England naturally embraces Kent, Surrey, Sussex and Wiltshire. However, this treasured book is more about his beloved Hampshire than any other part of the south. Not surprisingly,... Read more or Comment
Hampshire Days Find!
27 September 2009 W H Hudson was an American naturalist who took readily to the English countryside, lived in Bournemouth, and wrote many popular books in the early part of the last century. Hampshire Days (1903) for the most part celebrates the New... Read more or Comment
Mr Hardy Writes a Poem Find!
27 September 2009 In addition to the Winchester setting for the final scene of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy set a poem there following a real-life experience. On the pretext of showing the Hon. Florence Henniker the architectural delights of the cathedral,... Read more or Comment
Thackeray in Fareham Find!
27 September 2009 During the 1850s, William Makepeace Thackeray was Charles Dickens' closest rival in terms of popularity and literary achievement. Born in India, he was sent to England to stay with his great-aunt in Fareham although the young Dickens had left Portsmouth by... Read more or Comment
In this house Find!
13 September 2009 One of Hampshire's literary heroines is the poet and novelist Julia Darling.She was born and brought up in Winchester but made her name with the Poetry Virgins in the North East. She then turned her hand to short stories and... Read more or Comment
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Recent posts
- Virginia Smith remembered
- Mary Sumner
- A272: An Ode to a Road (by Andy)
- The hunt continues
- Winchester MP Mark Oaten to publish book
- Chalet School
- Bags of Books and Enthusiasm
- Chalet School author
- Poetry in the pub
- Wealth of words in Winchester
- Hampshire Gets Going
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