![]() ![]() The cover is beautiful – I’d give it 9/10. There can be no definitive or perfect compilation of pieces of writing, but this is a very pleasing one. ![]() Just so that you know, this is not a book solely concerning wildlife, it has quite a lot about gardens and landscapes too. And then I would read on into a more recent writer and usually enjoy that too. I found myself visiting the big names of the past such as Austen, a couple of Brontes, Browning, Rossetti, Sackville-West, Woolf and Wordsworth to see what they had to say and being pleased by what I found. They are arranged alphabetically and so one has the pleasure of moving through the book from, for example, Enid Blyton’s description of children finding a slow worm from her The Mountain of Adventure ( Dinah, it’s not a snake! It’s a lizard – a legless lizard – quite harmless and very interesting), through an excerpt from Tessa Boase’s excellent Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather and on to a poem from 1`919 by Dorothy Bonarjee called Immensity. The 100+ women writers range from Julian of Norwich (fourteenth century) to many present day authors and poets. And this is quite a tome with 400+ pages of selections and another 50+ pages of notes and acknowledgements. ![]() Anthologies are always worth a look because, at the very least, you can rely on the compiler to have done a lot of work in sifting and selecting and, yes, discarding, to arrive at their final selection. ![]()
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