A New Forest Typo Part 1: The Origins of Branshaw Teleragh
By Andrew Gustar In the early 1800s, a message could be sent between Plymouth and London in a matter of minutes. The Admiralty Shutter Telegraph, devised by Lord George Murray during the…
News from the Lamb family archives: Elsie speaks
By Sara Haslam August 1893: The Questions at the Well by Fenil Haig [the first of many pseudonyms Ford used] was published by Digby, Long & Co., dedicated to Miss Elsie Martindale. Aside from…
The Turgenev/Flaubert Thing
By Paul Ottaviano I am 51 years old. I am not an academic. But I have remained a literary buff all these years. When I was a starry eyed young man of 19,…
