Tag: Nottinghamshire
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‘Colour and distance and depth’
Above the tunnels and caves of The Underground Man. I first came across the fifth Duke of Portland in Bill Bryson’s Notes from a Small Island. As part of Bryson’s valedictory tour of Britain he walks from Worksop to the family seat of the Dukes of Portland at Welbeck Abbey.
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‘The country of my heart’
A ramble through the countryside of D H Lawrence. For reasons I don’t quite recall now, in my application to study comparative literature at university I wrote that I had read D H Lawrence. I hadn’t. But he was on my list.
A Reader's Rambles 