Terry Townsend

Chawton: Jane Austen’s Home

August 2, 2017

… during the last 8 years of her life, during which she wrote all of her major novels (and saw four of them published during her lifetime: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, and Emma). The dining room, with Jane’s writing table tucked away in a corner next to the window. Jane’s bedroom […]

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England (the Southern / Central Part), from East to West and Back: Bookish Souvenirs

August 1, 2017

The Trip: * Chiltern Hills and Thames Valley (to mystery lovers, aka “Midsomer County” — though given that this is an area chock-full of quintessential(ly) English villages, it’s no surprise that it also routinely provides locations for other series, such as Inspector Morse, The Vicar of Dibley, and of course, adaptations of Agatha Christie’s mysteries […]