A Literary Walk Through England

To motivate myself to walk in this next year

I am using an idea I saw (somewhere:)

where you keep track of your miles by 

"walking" from town to town on a map.

In other words I am not going to England

Unfortunately!!

I will just be walking around here with my goals

to be areas of England in which some of my all

time favorite authors lived and wrote.

I will be adding in some pics of places on my route

and quotes from my favorite books etc.

I began in Jane Austen Country,

Oxfordshire.

Basingstoke-Oakley Hall

to Steventon

7 miles

Oakley Hall is where Janes' friends, the Bramstons lived

and it is said she used it as a setting for Mansfield Park

and Lady Bramston as a model for Lady Bertram 

from the same book.

My favorite book of Jane's is

Persuasion

I love the heroine Anne Elliot

for the contrast she gives

 to the other women in the book.

 Anne quietly waits in the shadows

thinking the great love of her life will never come again.

Parted by family, war and money

her wait is rewarded finally when 

Captain Wentworth sees her for the true

steadfast person she has been

through it all.

Favorite quote

"All the privilege I claim for my own sex

(it is not an enviable one, you need not covet it) 

is that of loving longest, when existence 

or when hope is gone"