What Hetty Did: Life and Letters
by J. L. Carr
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Quite fascinating to find further accounts of characters met in Carr's previous novels, particularly George Harpole and Emma Foxberrow.
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- Original publication date
- 1988
- People/Characters
- Hetty Beauchamp; Emma Foxberrow; Rose Gilpin-Jones; George Harpole; Edward Peplow; Polly Horbling
- Important places
- Steeple Sinderby, North Yorkshire, England, UK (fictional); Tampling, England, UK (fictional); Birmingham, England, UK; Fenland, England, UK; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Epigraph
- Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set
And blew - 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.'
Robert Browning and William Shakespeare.
Have you no mind to do what nobody can do for you?
Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote.
Put her in a room with any six people old enough to be her parents and her parents may be there for anything she knows. They may be in any house she sees, they may be in any churchyard she passes, she may run against 'em i... (show all)n any street and never know it. She knows nothing about 'em. Never did. Never will.
Charles Dickens - Little Dorrit. - Dedication
- For A, H, P.S, M and N and for many a landlady gone but unforgotten. And also for Edmund Kirby who, in his ninety-eighth year, showed unwearied interest in the production of this book which is dedicated to the Memory of John ... (show all)Baskerville of Birmingham, who designed this type fount, invented wove paper and lost cheerfully on particular books which he published.
- First words
- Of course, although I didn't know it was the begining of the end, I recall the circumstances exactly.
- Quotations
- The [Youth Opportunities] project is dolling up headstones in St Tobit's Graveyard ... you will have to find your own bucket and scrubbing-brush.... I considered it not unreasonable to encourage volunteers to make a start on ... (show all)some uncle, aunt or half-remembered grandfather.... "This work is not for them," [the Youth Opportunity Expert] cried crossly. "Not a single one of this lot qualify under Section 19B. They are old has-beens pensioned off by the Government to stay at home. And doing it free is completely irrelevant."
A clutch of ball-points clipped into his breast pocket had betrayed him as a rate-collector. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So, arm in arm, we strolled off down the long platform in the warm sunshine carrolling gaily.
- Blurbers
- Craig, Amanda; King, Francis
- Original language
- English
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