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L&T Archive 1998-2003

Message Index

Signing of letters
I'm wondering too....
Yours, etc
Plain Jane
See thread on Ramble #72890
Rosy cheeks...
Too flushed
I agree - But they said the original painting was not as red. NFM
A nitpick on the JA Names database..
Thank you
All set
Ta! (nfm)
Architectural Digest
MT The environs of Meryton continued....
Hornbeam Coppice
I never met a hornbeam....
Coppice
Hornbeam woods
Charcol
trees
Horny hornbeam
Down the river...
Woodbanks and hedges
Wildlife Quiz
Wildlife Answer
Squirrels and Muntjac
Lizzy would have seen more species of
Titmice, Pink Jays and other sundries....
Jay
The timewasters
Corncrake
Pests
Would you believe it?
Rabbit Transit
Squirrels
Red Alert
The Badgers of Chawton House
Dearth of squirrel means dearth of nut, ( and cue for CW+poem)
I await your discovery. nfm
But only a tiny search
Nuts!!! O-oh Ha-a-zel nuts! Ooooh!........ ;-)
"World's worst"?
Guess w/o Searching
Smart lot, all of you......
Darcy's nutty boyhood
Actually, it was me ;-) (nfm)
Congratulations! nfm
"women's troubles"
Archives
Yet more troubles for the ladies
I don't think that problem existed
Why shave?
There was a big fuss...
At a loss
Artistic conventions on the human body.
Post deleted here
Depilatories
Facial hair...
Empathizing with the Duchess
Calling cards...
also interested in knowing more
Callin cards..
M.T.Jane Austen's Hertfordshire
Does this mean...
Simple Question on 'Livings'
Selling livings
Lots more in the archives...
British in India in JA's period
Ah yes, that book
Memsahibs
Right , but.....
Jack -
Allegories on the banks of the Ganges
Elliots and Hastings
Here it is -
I begin to understand, dear Heart!
MT: Trees
Honey Locusts in England
Wentworth Woodhouse
Bit more on that......
Pictures (and it's MT!)
Jane Austen and the Slave Trade
Thomas Clarkson
Thanks and Thomas Fowell Buxton
In the Papers
In agreement
Which papers?
Which Papers
Actually...
Publication of Commons Debates
The Gentleman's Magazine
Yes!
More info, and a link
But who was Buchanan? nfm
Buchanan
Found him!
Clarkson, Buchanan, and Who???
Captain Pasley of the Engineers
Found an Engineer Pasley
Hmm...
Can we ask our military experts?
Military Police
Yes! `Policy' brings results
JA's handwriting, and errors
Pasley's book
Military policy/police
MT yew trees
Here's a link
The aging of yew trees
Thank you!
Ooo - look here for Georgian Weymouth!
Ooo- thank you!! ;-)
A gentlewomanly occupation
Jane Austen and Sally Jersey
Life and times and
Doesn't offend
Lady Sarah Sophia Fane (1785-1867)
I see now by the dates, thank you, John...
this always reminds me
I agree. I love that passage! nfm
Ring Around The Rosy and dancing
pockets full of posies
...And we all fall down
Pretty sure . . .
Almost positive
Thanks so much!!!
Tess (Nfm)
For an alternate opinion :-)
Thanks, Kathleen...and I'd like to add a few more points:
Regency celebrity gossip
Gossip
Chemise á la reine
The Queen's Shift
Marvelous! Thanks, Linden
A bit of a disclaimer
Perdita the fashion guru (and minor cause of the French Revolution)
Aristocrats As Entertainment
Outside interest
No tonly Aristocrats! ;-)
Fair Enough
Nope, they couldn't afford the paper
a partial response
Servants
Netherfield and Longbourne?
MT Roman roads and Golf Courses
Tarmac
Precautions to stop corrugated roads
Ruts and Corrugations
More on Corduroy
Corrugations
Thanks. So, ruts but no corrugations then. nfm
What happened to Middlesex?
The lost county
This is a really nice map!
Puzzle solved. It's a Sequoiadendron Gigantea
Cedar at Chawton
M.T. Poem Puzzle
Can you give a clue?
Knew I couldn't fool you for long ;-)
It appears in a list of his works...
Milne's "Norman Church"
MT: Changes in JA's lifetime?
Nope, not time yet! (nfm)
Viscountess and Dowager Viscountess
Irish and non-Irish viscountesses
I thought they had to be Irish...
MT Chawton Trees - The Beech
Beeches
MT: Tree identification requested
It might be Elm.
Scraggy elms...
I think it's elm
Stag-headed trees in art
More art than botany
Art and botany
Landscape as a lower form of art
Stubbs galore
Nice bio there.....
Did you say "Duke of Ancaster"?
Here's the Australian landscape painting again
It is hard to see...
You might find this useful
Thanks: very useful. nfm
No monkey in this tree !
North American Trees?
Hard for me to tell, but
We think it is a wellingtonia too
A sequoia, better chance, but
Um....... ;-)
Kenwood Redwoods
More redwoods
trivia about redwoods vs sequoias
You say sequoia, and I say sequoiadendron....
Hedges and hedge laying
A recently laid hedge
Regrowth on a new laid hedge
Hedgerows
Bocage, et..cetera
Bocage in JA's time
Hollow ways
Captain Wentworth and the Hollow Way?
Stanley is today's best known hollow way nfm
Snort!
Fascinating -- amazing how the bushes survive. nfm
Stupid question...
Dry stone walls
Please remember to snip :-)
Stone hedges.
Thanks!
Great Resource - thanks nfm
MT: Thomas Bewick
Bewick swans?
Thomas Bewick - yes, he was! NFM
Hi Martti!
Mr. Bennet's visit
Pleased to make your acquaintance
Yes, But Mrs B wanted to do the right thing
MT: Dirty great big lumps of history all over the landscape
History and Heritage
Yes, I agree in general...
Romantic Factories
Ironbridge
Iron bridge
It has some marvellous hanging woods, too!
industrial heritage
Armley Mills
Canals
Some examples from a bit north of Pemberly
Handwritings
They were carefully taught
LOL
MT English countryside
Apologize...
No need to apologise! ;-)
Trees, churches and othetr things......
Trees, churches and....
Blown away!
Speaking of trees and churches...
The Ankerwyke yew
What the "experts" seem to forget about yew trees...... ;-)
Don't forget goldcrests.
Glad they grow fast....
A mile of yew hedge...
The Ashbrittle yew
Nice photos, and.....
monkey puzzle, like this?
Monkey puzzle link
The yew hedge at Montacute house
MT: Enclosure Acts for beginners
Could we save this for later, please?
Fine by me. nfm
MT Woodland - Types and Terms (long)
Care for some visuals with that? ;-)
I would
Visual aids etc
Yes, very useful
With Spencer's Permission (Coppice )
Already enjoying this MT
Yes, let's not go there......
A scheme to Box Hill
Pollard, a.k.a "Broccoli Tree"
Not a pic, but a poem....... (Selborne Hanger)
Turtles? nfm
Yup, turtles!
Three birds?
Four calling birds, three french hens......
four colly birds
More famously
And `The Phoenix and the Turtle'. nfm
I think you have solved it!
The cooing is melancholy
Well, ......
You say demented, some say maddening
I guess this is by Gilbert White? (nfm)
I believe so......
He has delighted us long enough I fear (nfm)
Gilbert White and John Clare
Sorry about the spaced lines. I'll work it out eventually.
How stupid can I get. Sorry.
Don't worry!
Okay, a picture of Selborne Hanger
A couple of caveats
Coppice and Copse in P&P
More JA coppices and hangers
I hope I'll be forgiven for this.
Peeled away
New wallpaper to match M.T.! Thanks (nfm)
Plantation
Wood Pasture
Woolmer Forest, 1830....
Woolmer Forest, 1789
Wet Heath and treeless forest
Dirty Bottoms
Don't forget thicket!
Woodland place names
One, anyway
'Park' can be a woodland term.....
Chawton Park Wood
Well, there you are, you see.....
I see the wood
It's the wormy thing......
I see it now! Thanks :-) (nfm)
Thanks, Caroline. Marvellous map. nfm
So, Rosings Park
A clue perhaps.
Found a ha-ha!
Ah-ha! A ha-ha! (nfm)
Wimpole Hall
Wasn't planning to...
Parks and Pales
Jinx, Spencer! :-) (nfm)
Coppicing and Pollarding
Introducing people...
From the Archives
Thanks very much! (nfm)
Visions of England III - "A correct Taste in Landscape"
Wealth, taste and show
Natural Artificiality
Chatsworth
On dangerous ground here
Chatsworth is a palace
Perhaps a little bit
A "walking" scene from P&P
My two penn'orth
Cotswoldification...I like that!
The Cotswolds
Henry Tilney's village?
Rosings vs Pemberley, and other things
Walking and window tax
M.T. Visions of England II- JA as the epitome of Englishness
Country writer
Accuracy
Male accomplishments
Men and music
Male Accomplishments
Instruments, gender, and class
Men and drawing
Men and Drawing
About those Pesky Brackets
M.T. Visions Of England I- the Englishness of the countryside
Green!
Green meadows, narrow lanes, stone walls, hedges
Clumps
Brown and yellow
The browning of Herefordshire
What about purple?
Green!!!
... and pleasant, of course
and also...
Rolling hills
The Rolling English Road (ahem! Not entirely historically accurate)
Love that poem! nfm
thanks, I enjoyed it nfm
Austen or Bronte Country?
No forests
That's fascinating, Kaarin.....
Architecture and ferns
Lovely pictures
Formed by man
An Australian perspective
Green and soft. Perceptions galore
Conifer forests
Drawing Rooms
The drawing room
Thank You
Withdrawing room
Today
Aw, shucks
By the bye...
Where does it say...?
Thanks for sharing this
Oh, I don't know
Master bedroom
Nothing like dancing, you know
When we learned to dance the Maggot
Dancing alone...
Oh boy! My dream is a reality!
A question of tea and JA's characters
Tea drinking
O what a Henry!
What a Henry indeed
His name was Richard
I an so excited...
A book to covet -JA in Facsimile
I love such stories
Castlereagh and John Knightley
On a tragic and ironic note...
Connections between JA and Castlereagh?
Doubt it...
Oh well. There goes another bright idea. nfm
If this doesn't come to Canada
Sounds like a dream come true!
"Autobahn" = German for "motorway" nfm
Right, but...
Concrete
Don't you think...
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