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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
A walk with the poets
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coleridge, Quantock hills, walking, wordsworth, writing
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February 14, 2013 |
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A walk with the poets
We went for a walk on the Quantocks the other day. It was a crisp clear morning, but cold, there was still snow on the ground. It lingers longer up here than in the vale of Taunton Deane. We took to talking about Coleridge and Wordsworth, of how they would have walked these very paths, of what we would think if we suddenly saw them now, walking towards us. Easy for us to see now that they were giants of literature, but if we came across them on our walk (fashions notwithstanding) we would see them as jobless layabouts, scrounging off others while they scribble...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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