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The Quantock Connection
Posted by: Bethany Askew
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Charles Lamb, Chartwell House, Churchill, Coleridge Cottage, Dorothy Wordsworth, Joseph Cottle, Josiah Wedgewood, National Trust, Nether Stowey, Quantock hills, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Somerset, Tom Poole, William Hazlitt, William Wordsworth
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April 6, 2014 |
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The Quantock Connection
Last week we did our first stint as National Trust Volunteer Room Guides in Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey. The idea of being Room Guides evolved gradually. We visited Chartwell House, Churchill’s home, when we were staying with my brother in Sussex and the Room Guides were so helpful and knowledgeable...Read More
Wild West Wordsworth
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Alfoxden Park, Allen Bank, Coleridge Cottage, Dorothy Wordsworth, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Josiah Wedgewood, Nether Stowey, Rydal Mount, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Coleridge, The English Lake District, The Lake Poets, The National Trust, Thomas Poole, William Wordsworth
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October 6, 2013 |
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Wild West Wordsworth
Most people associate the Lake Poets with, well, the Lakes, of course. The English Lake District, that is. Ask them where Wordsworth lived and they’ll tell you: in Grasmere. Dove Cottage, Rydal Mount. If they’re officionadoes they’ll even mention Allen Bank, only recently restored to the National Trust and once again open to visitors. The Somerset connection is often forgotten. The odd few will know of Coleridge Cottage in Nether Stowey, but people rarely talk of nearby Alfoxden Park (variously spelled Alfoxdon and Alfoxton). Yet this was the home...Read More
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Bethany Askew is the author of eight novels:
The Time Before, The World Within, Out of Step, Counting the Days, Poppy’s Seed, Three Extraordinary Years,The Two Saras and I know you, Don’t I?
She has also written a short story, The Night of the Storm, and she writes poetry.
Two more women’s fiction books have been accepted for publication in 2020 and 2021 respectively and she is currently working on a new novel.
In her spare time she enjoys reading, music, theatre, walking, Pilates, dancing and voluntary work.
Bethany is married and lives in Somerset.
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