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Beside the Sea at Brixham and Budleigh

Please see my new post B beside the sea at Brixham and Budleigh for a new Blog Voices from Wildridge; a New Devon Book finds its way



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Moving on ... a new book blog about a new Devon book looking for its way

If you have occasionally stumbled upon this blog and wondered why it disappeared into the virtual mire last year you might be interested to follow its own follow-up. Although I may sometimes still...



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Devon; Celebration; 2016; Ten Women Writers; Anniversaries; Lives & Texts.

Tor Down House, Belstone, Devon
home of Doris Lessing from 1964-68.Names; Dates; Texts50 years ago, 1966, Doris Lessing was living in a longhouse at Belstone tucked beneath the  granite...



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Delafield's Devon Double-Scapes

          Northernhay Gardens, Exeter, where EM Delafield wrote her first novels, in 1915.


         Almost a year ago, as the last day of the...



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South-West-Women-Writers - Devon

You might like to know that I've reinstated, rejigged and re-published the website 
South-West-Women-Writers - whose focus is Devon's women writers. 
I'm hoping that if I can find time...



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Conundrums from Chelsea; Women and Gardens; Texts in the South-West

            
Watching the current Chelsea Flower Show TV footage and then coming across the piece Gardens: women vying for glory at Chelsea prompted some thought....



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Lost Trees; Wildridge & the Great Storm 1990

Lost Trees

Great Grandfather's garden, ‘Wildridge’,
North Tawton; Storm 1990

No
trees;
no wellington boot
stuck in the third branch
of the juniper fir; no aunt
shrieking Get down, you’ll fall;
no...



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Eliza's Letters; Eliza Pierce of Yendacott in mid C18 Devon

     
The Letters of Eliza Pierce 1751-1775;
with letters from her son Pierce Joseph Taylor, a schoolboy at Eton
See The Letters of Eliza Pierce 
Raddon Hills north of...



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Edith Holden Holidays on Dartmoor

On Yannadon

Near Burrator Reservoir
                 The artist/journalist Edith Holden, made famous during the last decades of the C20, after the long...



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Rhys and Plath: Cheriton and Court Green

The mid-Devon landscape

The following poem was written as part of a long sequence inspired by women writers and the Devon landscape. Jean Rhys and Sylvia Plath both lived in mid-Devon for several...



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