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On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 4 Find!
On the write tracks in literary Kent
Fire your imagination
Day Four
If you're feeling romantic head for
Penshurst Place, Penshurst, one-time home of Sir PhilipSidney the charismatic Elizabethan courtier and poet. Mortally wounded in battle, he selflessly gave his water canister to another dying soldier with the words 'Thy necessity is yet greater than mine', a maxim that has transcended the centuries. So, too, have the magnificence of Penshurst's medieval Baron's Hall and the beguiling magic of gardens whose records date back to 1346.
And here's a thought-provoking connection: a distant relative of Sir Philip lived at
Chartwell,Westerham - wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill, no less. He retreated here from the
pressures of public and political life, and it was also here that he wrote his history of England,
The Sceptred Isle
. You'll be fascinated by memorabilia from 40 years of his life at Chartwell,offering some surprising insights into his enigmatic character.
Other literary connections in Kent include:
·
H E Bates - The Darling Buds of May- Pluckley and Smarden·
Frances Hodgson Burnett - Maytham Hall (inspiration for the Secret Garden)·
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Groombridge Place Gardens (The Valley of Fear, SherlockHolmes)
·
Edith Nesbit - Romney Marsh (The Railway Children)For more information see
www.visitkent.co.uk/trade
3 October 2009 from Michelle
Finds
- Pangbourne - a love affair with a gorilla
- Out of the Blue by Val Rutt
- The Kent Factor
- Grubby Tales from Beardy Ardagh
- The Men of Kent March On
- The Curse of Aphis Minimus
- One True Crime
- Why Pick Lydden?
- From Maidstone Prison to the Wide Sargasso Sea!
- Dover- Life's a Beach
- The ideal home
- The Tramping Methodist - more tramping in Kent!
- The Small Years by Frank Kendon
- Everyone Loves Rupert Bear!
- Knole
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 4
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 3
- On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 2
- On the write tracks in literary Kent Day 1
- On the write tracks in literary Kent
- Penshurst is the Place
- From Country Pursuits to the Western Front
- Edmund Blunden - echoes from Yalding church bells
- Jane Austen walk
- John Knatchbull from Quarterdeck to Gallows
- Catherine Aird
- More from the tramps .....
- Van Gogh in Ramsgate?
- Tissot A Passing Storm c1876
- The Downfall of a Reading Detective
- Male Georgian/Regency authors
- Bluestocking writers
- Sketches By Boz - We must leave town!
- If You're Going to Snodland...
- The Kent Tramp Trail
- The Altar in the Loft
- Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection
- Jane Austen and Godmersham by The Rev. S. Graham Brade-Birks
- Kent Clues!
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