An Angel at My Table: The Complete AutobiographyAutobiografie van de Nieuwzeelandse schrijfster die na een reeks moeilijke jaren haar wil om te schrijven zag overwinnen. |
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Page 151
... Aunty Isy and Uncle George — Four Garden Terrace , a place of light with a terraced garden looking down over the bays of the peninsula , with my room , sharing the view , bright with cretonne curtains , a matching bedspread , and sheets ...
... Aunty Isy and Uncle George — Four Garden Terrace , a place of light with a terraced garden looking down over the bays of the peninsula , with my room , sharing the view , bright with cretonne curtains , a matching bedspread , and sheets ...
Page 152
... Aunty Isy as aunt - smelling of mothballs and cloth and wearing dark colours and working where she had worked all her life , now as supervisor in the Roslyn mill ; and still saying in a high voice , ' Lottie , Lottie , Middlemarch ...
... Aunty Isy as aunt - smelling of mothballs and cloth and wearing dark colours and working where she had worked all her life , now as supervisor in the Roslyn mill ; and still saying in a high voice , ' Lottie , Lottie , Middlemarch ...
Page 171
... Aunty Isy's feeling towards us , particularly Aunty Isy's interest in Myrtle , and Aunty Polly's voiced desire to ' adopt ' Chicks , or June . We quickly shut the drawer and turned our attention to the chocolate boxes . We noted that ...
... Aunty Isy's feeling towards us , particularly Aunty Isy's interest in Myrtle , and Aunty Polly's voiced desire to ' adopt ' Chicks , or June . We quickly shut the drawer and turned our attention to the chocolate boxes . We noted that ...
Contents
In the Second Place | 7 |
In Velvet Gown | 10 |
The Railway People | 14 |
Copyright | |
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