Maggie Davies
The Books in My Life - Jane Eyre
With little spare money for books when I was growing up, I haunted the local library (using my mother's ticket) and begged everyone for...
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Maggie Davies
- Jul 17
- 2 min
History that is Stranger than Fiction
Before I fell under the spell of Fitzwilliam Darcy, I was an avid admirer of C S Forrester's Horatio Hornblower. Still am, if the truth...
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- Sep 13, 2021
- 6 min
Elizabeth Gaskell – novels for our time
From time to time I like to include articles about books by writers other than myself, and the following is a piece by Tanya van Hasselt,...
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Maggie Davies
- Aug 25, 2021
- 2 min
CECILY - by Annie Garthwaite
Before reading this book I was already aware that Cecily Neville - granddaughter of John of Gaunt and the mistress who subsequently...
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Maggie Davies
- May 22, 2021
- 2 min
My Writing Life
My favourite writing places are coffee shops, and now we are allowed back inside... A couple of mornings a week, in normal times, I...
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Maggie Davies
- Dec 15, 2020
- 2 min
The Santa Claus of the 18th Century
Inside The Foundling Museum, in London's Bloomsbury, hangs Hogarth's magnificent portrait of a generous-hearted man who should be far...
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Maggie Davies
- Dec 12, 2020
- 1 min
The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
This book - recommended to me by a friend - took me on the tortuous journey that bee-keeper, Nuri, and his artist wife, Afra, are forced...
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