This is a lovely [and long!] post from Nan Quick with fabulous pictures on the Chelsea Flower show. I arrived in London on the last day of the show but didn’t get there – so this feels like I did after all! Thank you Nan for such an in-depth view!
This is a lovely [and long!] post from Nan Quick with fabulous pictures on the Chelsea Flower show. I arrived in London on the last day of the show but didn’t get there – so this feels like I did after all! Thank you Nan for such an in-depth view!
Jane Austen in Vermont 
Dear Deb- Thanks so much for sharing my Chelsea-Opus with our fellow
Austen lovers. Indeed, this article is VERY long….but my aim was to make my Readers feel they’d experienced the Flower Show in ALL of its aspects:the good & the bad…the invigorating & the exhausting.
Many more England-articles are in the works. I’m especially looking forward to completing my piece about Lyme Regis, which will feature a long photo-tour of the locations that Austen used in PERSUASION.
After Lyme Regis, I’ll publish a short photo-album of the ancient Kentish village of Horsmonden, where thorough documentation about the existence of Jane’s Austen ancestors seems to have begun: with John Austen IV, who was born in 1657. The Austens of Horsmonden were a wealthy family who made their money in the cloth trade. They consolidated this trade with the purchase of land and property, and a large number of houses in the village appear to have been built or owned by members of the family. While visiting churchyard of St.Margaret’s Church in Horsmonden in early June, I discovered the Austen family tomb (which was the largest,
and most resplendent of all of the monuments).
Best- Nan
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Hi Nan, how funny you mention Horsmonden as a future post – I put on the blog yesterday photos that Ron Dunning took from a hot-air balloon over Horsmonden – he had written about the John Austen history before. I hadn’t read your comment until this morning! – serendipity! – look very much forward to your post about Lyme Regis as well. I regret being there in London and not getting there to the flower show – I also missed the Olympia book fair that day – I must learn not to arrive on a Saturday but get there the day before at least!
Thanks again for your post Nan – I didn’t mean that LONG was a bad thing! – lovely photographs!
Deb
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