Summary
Aliving legend who protected herself with a Winchester rifle, a mathematician who posed as a Muslim student to translate major scientific books and a clergyman whose humorous verse flagged up the misery of the Somerset marshes are just three of the literary figures celebrated in a new book by West Country author James Crowden. Literary Somerset is as rich a mixture as anyone could wish for; spicier and fruitier than a Christmas pudding, it will nourish its readers not only into the New Year but also for years to come.
Somerset folk have long delighted in the knowledge that the county provided shelter and inspiration for Wordsworth, Coleridge, Jane Austen, TS Eliot and others, but Mr Crowden's carefully- researched book reminds us just how many novelists, poets, travel- writers, commentators and illustrators have found inspiration, consolation or a home in the county.See the full content of this document
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County's Proud Literary Heritage Revealed in Book
The mathematician was Adelard of Bath, a wealthy Saxon, born around 1080 in Bath, who was packed off to Tours in France for his education and travelled...
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