English Journeys

I bought myself a Christmas present

I just love this set of 20 Penguin paperbacks and know that I am going to get hours of pleasure from them.

The set is called 'English Journeys' and covers such a wide area of traditional English life written by many different authors.

The titles are as follows and I am sure I will be sharing some of the content from time to time.

1. Voices of Akenfield by Ronald Blythe

2. The Wood by John Stewart Collis

3. From Dover to the Wen by William Cobett

4. The Pleasures of English Food by Alan Davidson

5. Through England on a Side Saddle by Celia Fiennes

6. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and other Poems

7. A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman

8. Cathedrals and Castles by Henry James

9. Walks in the Wheatfields by Richard Jefferies

10. The Beauties of a Cottage Garden by Gertrude Jekyll

11. Country Churches by Simon Jenkins

12. A Wiltshire Diary by Francis Kilvert

13. Some Country Houses and their Owners by James Lees-Milne

14. The Clouded Mirror by L.T.C. Rolt

15. Let us now Praise Famous Gardens by Vita Sackville-West

16. One Green Field by Edward Thomas

17. English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams

and A.L. Lloyd

18. Country Lore and Legends by Westwood and Simpson

19. Birds of Selborne by Gilbert White

20. Life at Grasmere by Dorothy and William Wordsworth

In my next post I will tell you all you need to know about afternoon tea from a  page in book No. 4