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... Westmorland. Where Wordsworth made his home from 1802-08 in i I The pretty thatched cottage at Lower Bockhampton, where Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 Little Sodbury Manor, Gloucestershire, where Tyndale secretly translated the Bible into English The simple ...

Published: Sunday 01 February 1948
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 784 | Page: 58 | Tags: Photographs 

Lewis Casson

... lot of him has crept into Professor Linden), and J. R. Thomas, my classics tutor, who gave me my little Greek, and my social conscience. He taught me the Socialism of Merrie England and Keir Hardie, the Socialism of giving, not of getting. I sometimes ...

Published: Wednesday 18 February 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1453 | Page: 14 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL

... by a coronet of lilies of the valley and white hyacinths. This lovely dress was made for her by that clever young designer Hardy Amies, who featured a lot of sunray pleating in his recent spring export collection. The bride was attended by four children ...

Published: Wednesday 25 February 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2090 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

A LONDON NEWSLETTER

... corrects the pride of the living genera tion and fills the living with pride of race. It was rather a shock to turn to the Thomas Hardy peep-show and to see preserved for posterity in his work room as he left it so many hideous objects of Victorian furniture ...

Published: Saturday 03 April 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1841 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: Court News

... Vote. The Gold Vase was won by M. Boussac's Estoc, and the same owner won the Queen Mary Stakes with Coronation V. Mme. P. Thomas- Moret won the Queen Anne Stakes with Solina, and Mr. Herbert Blagrave the King Edward VII. Stakes with Vic Day (which he ...

Published: Wednesday 30 June 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2318 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

WHAT MAKES A GREAT NOVEL?: Some Thoughts on the Classics

... in the monstrous devices, to which he fell, in the way of fantastic coincidence to bolster up his plots. Oddly enough, Thomas Hardy alone came through the mincing- machine not wholly des troyed. Tess made an almost readably short story. I wonder why Now ...

Published: Saturday 24 July 1948
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1723 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

HER SOCIAL JOURNAL: Court news

... Produce Stakes, Major Murray-Smith escorting his attractive wife, also Lord and Lady Bury, Major and the Hon. Mrs. Rupert Hardy, Lord and Lady Manton, Mr. and Mrs. Penn Curzon- Howe-Herrick, who live in Yorkshire and told me they had been racing each ...

Published: Wednesday 29 September 1948
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2468 | Page: 13 | Tags: Photographs 

The Christmas Spirit and the Bright New Year

... Christmas Spirit and the Bright New Year By LAND AGENT At Christmas play and make good cheer for Christmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusscr 1524-1580. A HAPPY CHRISTMAS and a Prosperous New Year! Surely the most sincere and universal of all our formal greet- ...