You’re on a bus or a train in Derbyshire. The person sitting next to you is reading a book on an e-reader. “Ah”, you think. “Oh for the days of the battered paperback. Or the library book, even. That’s coming to an end. Soon be gone. Killed by technology.” Except it isn’t. Quite soon, in… Continue reading
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All Pride, no Prejudice – at Mr Darcy’s country seat
Google celebrates the 235th birthday of Jan Austen as its logo of the days (Dec 16). Share what might have been Jane Austen’s first view of the fictional Pemberley, the real Chatsworth House in Pride and Prejudice, as vast as a palace.
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