Courage in Adversity

A few weeks ago I went on a short camping trip with my family, and as luck would have it, I found some material that’s ever so fitting for this month’s post. We camped in Dorset, within driving distance of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill’s Weymouth, and of the pretty village of Osmington, where John Constable took his wife on their honeymoon, and allegedly spent his days sketching the countryside, to the delight of a grateful posterity, but presumably not so much to his young bride’s delight, s...