Until 1903 she lived at 14 Kensington Square, an attractive Georgian house with a small garden (true to her country origins she enjoyed working in the garden and once said 'no one ought to be without a tree of his own').4Hat tip: Ian Jackson.
4. A.S. Green to Morel, 9 June 1902 (Morel papers).
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017
A Tree of His Own
R.B. McDowell, Alice Stopford Green: A Passionate Historian (Dublin: Allen Figgis and Company Limited, 1967), pp. 47-48: