"Her Spirits were naturally good, and not easily depressed, and she possessed such a fund of vivacity and good humour as could only be damped by some very serious vexation.- Besides these antidotes against every disappointment, and consolations under them, she had another, which afforded her constant relief in all her misfortunes, and that was a fine shady Bower, the work of her own infantine Labours..."
~from Jane Austen's Catherine, or the Bower
Saturday, February 26, 2011
North Wind
I believe this was drawn by Arthur Hughes for one of George MacDonald's works of fiction (At The Back of the North Wind?). If anyone knows for sure, set me straight!
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