21st C
The west country is drowning, nothing but rain, steely grey skies and blustering winds for the past two weeks. People look glum. The Circus is a moving mass of colourful umbrellas, half of them turning inside out in the wind, as hundreds of poor drenched tourists follow their guides round the circle of houses, then march up Brock Street to view a soggy Royal Crescent, never at its best seen in heavy rain and howling gales.
But the following incident cheered me up:
A listener rang the Bristol BBC radio station to report he thought he had been so lucky when informed by a charity that he had won first prize in a raffle. When the box arrived it contained material for a make -it- yourself garden gnome. “The worst of it was,” the caller added wistfully, “All the rest of the prizes were bottles of wine!”
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LIVING WITH MRS THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH IN THE CIRCUS, BATH, 18TH /21ST C By VIVIENNE RAE-ELLIS The following is a work in progress, to be published here in instalments. The manuscript has not been submitted to any publisher. References and bibliography will be published following the final chapter. 1) go to the Manuscript below right.. 2) Start from the top entry.. 3) Read down through the manuscript
The Circus
About Me
- Vivienne Rae-Ellis FRGS
- I am an ex-pat Tasmanian author who has lived in England since 1987. I have had eleven books published in seventeen editions by publishers who include Faber&Faber, Heinemann, Hamish Hamilton, Robert Hale, University Of Melbourne, University of Yale, Angus Robertson and the Australian Institute Of Aboriginal Studies. Subjects include biographies of three famous Australians: Trucanini, the last Aboriginal Tasmanian to live and die on the island; Louisa Anne Meredith, Australia's first resident female author, and George Augustus Robinson, Chief Protector of the Aborigines in the 1830's. Published work includes books for adults and for children based on the history of Australia; the paranormal;and Public Libraries.