tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post5229062550167390647..comments2024-03-29T15:15:12.231+00:00Comments on Jean's Knitting: Jeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-61746934981610537902019-07-31T21:45:20.674+01:002019-07-31T21:45:20.674+01:00I have been reading with interest all the mention ...I have been reading with interest all the mention of Trollope. Thanks to Jean, I read He Knew He Was Right, and became a fan. I will get the autobiography for my Kindle. I will read more Trollope. I also read This House of Brede by Rumer Godden. Good books abound here. And I really enjoy all the comments!Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08269757003909983034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-85145822203965141362019-07-31T19:40:33.442+01:002019-07-31T19:40:33.442+01:00I am glad to meet a fellow centaur-fan!I am glad to meet a fellow centaur-fan!Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12038517988391228260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-23408883944405789432019-07-31T17:59:39.286+01:002019-07-31T17:59:39.286+01:00Trollope not only worked as a surveyor for the pos...Trollope not only worked as a surveyor for the post office, riding on average forty miles a day, checking on the rounds of individual postmen. He also went hunting two or three times a week. It is his work rate which is astounding - up every morning at five and writing 250 words each quarter of an hour. I felt that he also discussed quite openly his own snobbery, or at least a deep-seated conviction that social class mattered, even for jobs in the cI village service. Plus ca change...Shandyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00785187902651797202noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-26442140345399005622019-07-31T15:38:55.727+01:002019-07-31T15:38:55.727+01:00those centaurs are very frisky.
those centaurs are very frisky.<br />quiltcontemplation blogspothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07073675331096590657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-79509287537816960522019-07-31T13:24:25.816+01:002019-07-31T13:24:25.816+01:00John Scalzi and Neil Gaiman also support themselve...John Scalzi and Neil Gaiman also support themselves by writing.=Tamarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-46098133811340942052019-07-31T03:18:40.967+01:002019-07-31T03:18:40.967+01:00I read an article in the NYTimes about this, https...I read an article in the NYTimes about this, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/05/books/authors-pay-writer.html Could Trollope have supported his family without the post office? Mary Louhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05588244535423212079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8466385.post-40826213353485855672019-07-31T01:10:45.319+01:002019-07-31T01:10:45.319+01:00Thanks for mentioning Trollopes' autobiography...Thanks for mentioning Trollopes' autobiography in a previous post. I found a copy for my Kindle. I believe it was free.I look forward to reading it! :) I'm only an occasional visitor to your blog, but enjoy it a lot. Love your humor! (Humour?) Lisa Richardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00567160304529796810noreply@blogger.com