Peculiar Ground. Lucy Hughes-Hallett

      

       Copyright

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      Source ISBN: 9780008126544

      Ebook Edition © May 2017 ISBN: 9780008126537

      Version: 2018-01-16

       Dedication

      For my brothers,

      James and Thomas,

      with love

       Epigraph

      We are a garden walled around,

      Chosen and made peculiar ground;

      A little spot enclosed by grace

      Out of the world’s wide wilderness.

      ISAAC WATTS

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Dramatis Personae

       Map

       1663

       1961

       Friday

       Saturday

       Sunday

       1973

       June

       July

       August

       1989

       September

       October

       November

       1665

       Author’s Note

       By the Same Author

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       Dramatis Personae

      1663–1665

      John Norris – landscape-maker

      Arthur Fortescue, the Earl of Woldingham

      The Countess of Woldingham, his wife

      Their children – Charles Fortescue, Arthur Fortescue and a little girl

      Sir Humphrey de Boinville, brother to Lady Woldingham

      Lady Harriet Rivers, Lord Woldingham’s sister

      Cecily Rivers, her daughter

      Edward

      Pastor Rivers – brother to Lady Harriet’s late husband

      Another pastor

      Robert Rose – architect and comptroller

      Meg Leafield

      George Goodyear – head forester

      Armstrong – ranger

      Green – head gardener

      Slatter – farm overseer

      Underhill – major-domo

      Lane – steward

      Richardson – apothecary

      Lupin, a pug-dog

      1961–1989

      Living at Wood Manor