1. Mitford Miss Fannie's Hat Ninetynine year-old Miss Fannie has lots of hats, and she lovesthem all. But her favorite is the pink straw hat with the silk roses. http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/packages/us/mitford/missfannie.htm

Miss Fannie's Hat Ninety-nine year-old Miss Fannie has lots of hats, and she loves them all. But her favorite is the pink straw hat with the silk roses. That's the one Miss Fannie has worn on Easter Sunday for the past thirty-five years. When Miss Fannie's preacher asks her to donate one of her precious hats to the church auction, choosing which one to part with is no small task. This heartwarming story about the rewards of unselfish love will enchant readers young and old. The star of Miss Fannie's Hat is based on Jan Karon's own grandmother. "My grandmother, Miss Fannie, was so wonderful I wanted to share her with everyone," says Jan Karon. "I wrote Miss Fannie's Hat to give both children and adults a sense of family, to give them the grandmother or great-grandmother they never had, or always wished they had. Briefly, the story is about sacrifice and the rewards that can come when we give with a willing heart."

2. 08/07/01: “Muttering,” Miss Mitford? Hardly 08/07/01 Muttering, Miss Mitford? http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/hamlet/32/116.html

08/07/01: “Muttering,” Miss Mitford? Hardly Posted by: (AEH) Since Latin already been irrefutably proven to lie beyond the boundaries of your comprehension, I was composing something more suited to the tastes of one weaned on fashionable nursery-rhyme poetry and smart cocktails: The Grizzly Bear — pay attention and don’t sulk, Miss Mitford — The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; It has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware It has been eaten by the bear. Yes, yes, of course you comprehend Herr Hitler altogether more fully than do the rest of us, Miss Mitford — well, quis fallere possit amentem? “Who could deceive a lover?” Calm yourself — I didn’t mean it in the literal sense, though if half my female students directed a sixteenth of your ardour toward their Virgil, they would no longer say to the moutains and rocks, fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the London Examination Board. What’s that, Miss Mitford? Defend you when the soldiers first entered the plane? Well, I — yes, it was purely instinctive, I assure you. I‘d do no less for the least of my students, including Miss Frobisher. Rest assured that I was never in any real danger, though life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, but the young think it is, and you’re very very young, Miss Mitford. Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to close my eyes and try to nap. Wake me when we reach rebellatrix Germania, at which time we shall look up a colleague of mine at the Technischen Universität.

3. Mitford Previous, Volume 2, Number 6, Fall 1998 PAGE 2. More from Mitford. WhatI'm Reading Death Comes Frazier. Miss Read Lays Down Her Pen Miss http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/packages/us/mitford/fall98_2.htm

Volume 2, Number 6, Fall 1998 PAGE 2 Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather; Alone , Admiral Richard Byrd; Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs of a Jewish Homesteader , Sophie Trupin; How the Irish Saved Civilization , Thomas Cahill; The Perfect Storm , Sebastian Junger; Collected Poems , Ruth Bell Graham; Great Plains , Ian Frazier. Miss Read Lays Down Her Pen Miss Read (Dora Saint) wrote more than forty novels in her long career, and is beloved by readers around the world. We have corresponded over the years, and I wanted to share this recent card from her home in the Berkshire district of England. "Mrs. Douglas Saint apologizes for this printed reply, but failing eyesight makes handwriting increasingly difficult. She sends her best wishes." On the reverse side, this dear lady wrote, "Lovely to hear from you again... More power to your pen! I've now retired at 84, and am thoroughly enjoying it." We humbly thank Miss Read for the enormous richness, charm and delight she has added to our days. May God bless her tenderly as she pokes about in the garden and takes her ease. Getting to Know You I toured for my children's book

4. 01/08/02: Brevis, Miss Mitford, I Beg You Tell me, Miss Mitford, are you thinking of entering the field of fictionwriting? http://www.mrcranky.com/movies/hamlet/32/196.html

document.write(''); You sign up. We get $20!! Everyone sign up now! Search: All Products Books Magazines Popular Music Classical Music Video DVD Baby Electronics Software Outdoor Living Wireless Phones Keywords: 01/08/02: Brevis, Miss Mitford, I beg you Posted by: (AEH) It’s impossible to untangle sense from your non cohaerentia loqui regarding the fate of dictators who in their minds would bestride the narrow world like a Colossus. Now take a deep breath and try to speak slowly — I’ll help you to apply the dictates of a logic wholly alien to your nature. Hitler lost first his consciousness and then his facial hair, by which you realised that the man’s not Hitler at all, rather a mysterious impersonator? Tell me, Miss Mitford, are you thinking of entering the field of fiction-writing? If so, your melodramatic plots are scarecely an improvement over the thinly disguised familial linen-airing of your elder sister. How, pray, did you manage not to notice this remarkable impostoring earlier, given your much trumpeted intimacy with Hitler? Perhaps you’ve been friends with an impostor all along — tell me where, Miss Mitford, is fancy bred, or in the heart or in the head? Well, never mind — I suppose that it would be best to examine this phenomenon for myself, even though I’d thought that I’d found sanctuary here in this star-crossed magician’s cabinet, safe from both pursuing Nazis and from halfwitted consular officials, but dis aliter visum, the gods thought otherwise. If you’d assist me from —

5. Miss Fannie's Hat She moved to the small town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, which provided backgroundfor the setting of her fictional Mitford. Miss Fannie's Hat, her first http://www.villagebooks-mtshasta.com/missfannieshat.html

by Jan Karon Kid's Pick for April 2001! Don't miss this charming and inspirational story - with a great "Easter Sunday" twist! Miss Fannie is ninety-nine years old. And very small. In fact, she's grown to be about the same size she was as a little girl. Miss Fannie has lots of hats. And each one is her favorite. But when she gives up her very favorite hat to help raise money in the church auction, Miss Fannie - and the reader - is in for a real treat. Readers young and old will be enchanted by Miss Fannie. They'll also discover wonderful truths about trust and faith and the rewards of unselfish love. Author of the bestselling series, The Mitford Years, Jan Karon left a successful advertising career to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an author. She moved to the small town of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, which provided background for the setting of her fictional Mitford. Miss Fannie's Hat, her first children's book, is based on memories of Jan's grandmother, Miss Fannie, who lived to be a hundred years old, and who provided the model for the story's wonderful title character. And don't miss Jan Karon's other wonderful children's book - Jeremy: The Tale of an Honest Bunny.

6. BookPage Children's Review: Miss Fannie's Hat had, says Karon. People want Mitford to be real, and they want MissFannie to be real. I love to say that both are real. There are http://www.bookpage.com/9804bp/childrens/miss_fannies_hat.html

Miss Fannie's Hat By Jan Karon Illustrated by Toni Goffe Augsburg, $16.99 ISBN 0806635266 You'll want to gather all the kids around for a touch of Mitford as you read Jan Karon's first picture book for children, Miss Fannie's Hat . Of course, Mitford, the town that is the setting for Karon's best-selling adult series is never mentioned, but the charming story and Toni Goffe's child-friendly illustrations give the same warm-hearted feeling. We know this place. Karon knew the real Miss Fannie well she was Jan's grandmother who lived to be 100 years old. Like the book's character, Miss Fannie was a tiny woman of great spunk and faith, who loved wearing colorful hats. The story seems rather quiet in the beginning. Miss Fannie lives with her daughter Miss Wanda, who prepares her meals, helps her shampoo and curl her hair, and, after Miss Fannie has decided which of her many hats to wear, takes her to church on Sundays. One Sunday, the young preacher asks Miss Fannie to donate a hat to the church fundraiser for pre-Easter repairs. She agrees, but deciding which one to give is not easy. Miss Fannie asks the Lord what she should do, remembering past episodes involving each hat as she considers which one to give. Finally, she selects her very favorite her Easter hat. When Easter arrives, Miss Fannie goes to church with only her curls on her head. The surprise that awaits her there makes her gift more than worthwhile.

7. New York Times Over the more than three decades that she wrote nonfiction, Miss Mitford railedagainst those who tried to suppress dissent over the Vietnam War, against a http://www.mitford.org/nytimes.htm

THE NEW YORK TIMES Jessica Mitford, Mordant Critic of American Ways, and a British Upbringing, Dies at 78 By RICHARD SEVERO Jessica Mitford, whose book "The American Way of Death" won her enormous popularity as an irreverent muckraker and witty polemicist, died yesterday at her home in Oakland, Calif. She was 78. The cause was cancer, said her daughter, Constancia Romilly. Over the more than three decades that she wrote nonfiction, Miss Mitford railed against those who tried to suppress dissent over the Vietnam War, against a prison system she found to be corrupt and brutalizing, and against a medical profession she thought was greedy and given to unnecessary procedures. She even exposed the odd doings of her sisters. But it was "The American Way of Death," published in 1963, that made the British-born Miss Mitford a formidable literary figure in her adopted country. Near her death she was preparing a revision to be published next year by Alfred A. Knopf. The thesis of the book, a scathing indictment of the American funeral industry, was that undertakers had "Successfully turned the tables in recent years to perpetrate a huge, macabre and expensive practical joke on the American public."

8. Calendar For 1896-1897 Creagh Henry as the Southern secret service agent and Miss Georgie Esmond as Caroline Mitford received special mention. http://www.emich.edu/public/english/adelphi_calendar/m96d.htm

THE LONDON STAGE 1800-1900 Joseph Donohue and James Ellis, General Editors ROYAL ADELPHI THEATRE (formerly THE SANS PAREIL THEATRE) Calendar for 1896-1897 Edited by Thirza Cady A Publication of The Adelphi Calendar Project Alfred L. Nelson and Gilbert B. Cross, General Editors Theodore J. Seward, Jr., Systems Analyst Contents The Season Daily Calendar For 1896-1897 First Performance of Aug 1896 First Performance of Sep 1896 ... Music, Composers, And Musicians The Season The Adelphi fall season started with Boys Together , an "original drama" by Haddon Chambers and Comyns Carr billed in the Times as an "innovation in melodrama" (27 August 1896). The innovation was that greed was not the reason for the villain's dastardly behavior, but unreasoning, undying hatred. The plot still had a persecuted hero, some ambitious settings, and the climactic confrontation between hero and villain at the climax. While the play was described as a praiseworthy attempt to leave the beaten path of conventional melodrama, it failed to convince the critics. The author's work was compared unfavorably with Henry Pettitt in his former successes. They especially took Comyns Carr to task, accusing him of letting material considerations take precedence over those of art. The story concerns the fortunes of two men who had been to school together as boys (hence the title).

9. NY Times Obit -Robert Treuhaft> Miss Mitford, who was known as Decca and who died in 1996, dedicated thework to her husband with gratitude for his untiring collaboration. . http://www.mitford.org/nyobit.html

December 2, 2001 Robert Treuhaft, Lawyer Who Inspired Funeral Exposé, Dies at 89 By PAUL LEWIS Robert Treuhaft, a crusading radical lawyer who inspired his wife, Jessica Mitford, to write her best seller "The American Way of Death," died in New York on Nov. 11. He was 89. As a union lawyer representing longshoremen in the San Francisco area in the 1950's, Mr. Treuhaft was enraged by the exorbitant fees undertakers charged, frequently consuming a widow's death benefits. After organizing the Bay Area Funeral Society to reduce the cost of funerals for union members, Mr. Treuhaft encouraged his wife to write an exposé of the funeral industry, taking a year off from his Oakland law practice to help with research. The result was "The American Way of Death," first published in 1963. Miss Mitford, who was known as Decca and who died in 1996, dedicated the work to her husband with gratitude for "his untiring collaboration." In a 1993 interview, Miss Mitford said that initially she had not been interested in the subject. "Then Bob started bringing home the trade publications like Casket and Sunnyside, Mortuary Management — all those wonderful names — so I began to study them," she said. When the British novelist Evelyn Waugh remarked that the book seemed to have been written by two people, Jessica Mitford's sister Nancy wrote back saying: "Clever of you to see the two voices. I am quite certain much of it was written by Treuhaft who is a sharp little lawyer, and who certainly made her write it in the first place."

10. Miss Fannies Hat Mitford series by Jan Karon, I was thrilled to discover she also has written childrens books. I know a lady just like Miss http://virtuaproject.com/Miss_Fannies_Hat_0806635266.html

Miss Fannies Hat Miss Fannies Hat by Authors: Jan Karon , Toni Goffe Released: February, 1998 ISBN: 0806635266 Hardcover Sales Rank: List price: Our price: Book > Miss Fannies Hat > Customer Reviews: Average Customer Rating: Miss Fannies Hat > Customer Review #1: A delightful book for everyone! Jan Karon has done it again! Not only has she kept me spellbound with The Mitford Years, but Jan Karon has created a terrific platform for childrens books as well. Miss Fannies Hat is a wonderful, true story about Jan Karons own grandmother, that demonstrates the joys of sacrifice. A lesson can be learned from Miss Fannie‘I can only pray that Jan Karon writes more childrens books about her grandmother! Miss Fannies Hat > Customer Review #2: Wonderful Easter story Having read the Mitford series by Jan Karon, I was thrilled to discover she also has written childrens books. I know a lady just like Miss Fannie at my church. Its a wonderful story for old and young alike. My womens group had everyone wear hats to their May meeting and shared this book with all the gals. They loved it. And the surprise at the back of the book is really enjoyed by my granddaughters.

11. The Mitford Years: At Home In Mitford / A Light In The Window / These High, Gree I grew up in a small New England town much like Mitford. It is a delight to escapethere everytime I read about Miss Rose, uncle Billy, Emma and Dooley not to http://www.wkonline.com/a/The_Mitford_Years_At_Home_in_Mitford__A_Light_in_the_W

Book > The Mitford Years: At Home in Mitford / A Light in the Window / These High, Green Hills / Out to Canaan (Four-Volume Set) The Mitford Years: At Home in Mitford / A Light in the Window / These High, Green Hills / Out to Canaan (Four-Volume Set) by Authors: Jan Karon,Donna Kae Nelson Released: April, 1999 ISBN: 0147712564 Paperback Sales Rank: List price: Our price: You save: The Mitford Years: At Home in Mitford / A Light in the Window / These High, Green Hills / Out to Canaan (Four-Volume Set) > Customer Reviews: Average Customer Rating: The Mitford Years: At Home in Mitford / A Light in the Window / These High, Green Hills / Out to Canaan (Four-Volume Set) > Customer Review #1: The Mitford Series I absolutely loved this series, and have shared it with my closest friends and family. Mitford certainly has its share of eccentric folks, and I found myself identifying with many of the them, and truly enjoying them. A pleasant, easy read, I looked forward to each book. I found the writing wonderfully humorous and at times quite touching and would recommend this series of books to anyone looking for characters with the human touch! Jan Karon has described my kind of town in Mitford. The Mitford Years: At Home in Mitford / A Light in the Window / These High, Green Hills / Out to Canaan (Four-Volume Set) > Customer Review #2:

12. Seasonal Summary For 1896-1897 Creagh Henry as the Southern secret service agent and Miss Georgie Esmond as Caroline Mitford received special mention. http://www.emich.edu/public/english/adelphi_calendar/m96s.htm

THE LONDON STAGE 1800-1900 Joseph Donohue and James Ellis, General Editors ROYAL ADELPHI THEATRE (formerly THE SANS PAREIL THEATRE) Seasonal Summary for 1896-1897 Edited by Thirza Cady A Publication of The Adelphi Calendar Project Alfred L. Nelson and Gilbert B. Cross, General Editors Theodore J. Seward, Jr., Systems Analyst Contents Theatre Information Seasonal Dates The Season Theatre Management And Functionaries ... Music, Composers, And Musicians Theatre Information Royal Adelphi Theatre. Doors open 7:30, curtain 8:00. Ticket prices: private boxes (grand tier) 3 guineas, private boxes (pit tier) 2 guineas, private boxes (upper circle tier) 1 guinea, orchestra stalls (reserved) 10/6d, balcony stalls (reserved) 6/-, upper circle (reserved) 4/-, upper circle (unreserved) 3/-, pit 2/6d, gallery 1/-. Seasonal Dates 26 August 1896 - 4 September 1897 312 performances: 22 matinee, 290 evening Charity (1): H.R.H. The Prince of Wales Hospital Fund (27 Feb 1897) Dark (31): Preparations for the new piece (7 Dec 1896, 8 Dec 1896, 9 Dec 1896, 10 Dec 1896, 11 Dec 1896, 12 Dec 1896, 14 Dec 1896, 15 Dec 1896, 16 Dec 1896, 17 Dec 1896, 18 Dec 1896, 19 Dec 1896, 21 Dec 1896, 22 Dec 1896) Christmas Day (25 Dec 1896) Funeral of Agostino Gatti (18 Jan 1897) Passion Week (12 Apr 1897, 13 Apr 1897, 14 Apr 1897, 15 Apr 1897)

13. Reading Group Guide | THE MITFORD YEARS SERIES By Jan Karon with Barnabas, Dooley, and Miss Sadie changed him? Do Jan Karon's characters remindyou of people you know? Have you ever lived next door to a Mitford character http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides/mitford_years_series.asp

Penguin Putnam The Mitford Years Series by Jan Karon List Price: Pages: Boxed Edition (4 paperbacks) Format: Paperback ISBN: Publisher: Riverhead Books Book I: In At Home in Mitford, Father Tim finds himself running on empty. Even after twelve years of shepherding his flock, he finds that Emma, his secretary, persists in treating him like a ten-year-old. Barnabas, a huge black dog, adopts him, and a hostile mountain boy, Dooley, is thrust into his care. To add to his confusion, a growing friendship with Cynthia Coppersmith, his new neighbor, stirs emotions he hasn't felt in years. Book II: In A Light in the Window, Father Tim is in love and running scared. Cynthia has won his heart, but he is set in his ways and afraid of letting go. To complicate things, a wealthy and powerful widow pursues Father Tim, plying him with crab cobbler and old sherry. In the ensuing comedy of errors, he just can't set his foot right. Somehow the antidote to this confusion rests in the history of his oldest and dearest parishioner, Miss Sadie, and the discovery of family she didn't know she had. Book III: In These High, Green Hills, Father Tim fulfills Cynthia's conviction that deep down he is a man of romance, panache, and daring. Though his cup of joy overflows, his heart goes out to those around him who so badly need the healing aid of a loving heart. Chief among these is Dooley, his teenage ward, whose rough edges grate against the boarding school he both loves and hates. Can Father Tim face the much deeper needs of Dooley's mother, Pauline, and the battered young girl Lace, whose childhood has been a horror story of neglect?

14. Centre D'études Du 19e Siècle Français Joseph Sablé. Translate this page Femmes. Mitford, Miss MARIE RUSSELL Mitford, Miss. Anon. «La comédie en pension,par Miss Mitford», Revue Britannique, tome 6, 1836, 363-373. Anon. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/sable/recherche/banques/femmes/auteures/mitf

Accueil Femmes Auteures : Mitford Femmes MITFORD, MISS MARIE RUSSELL Journal des jeunes personnes , tome XI, 1843, 312-315. Revue Britannique , tome 6, 1836, 363-373. Revue Britannique , tome 5, 1836, 135-150. Design, en collaboration avec Jeanne Humphries, et gestion du site web: Emitting Media

15. Centre D'études Du 19e Siècle Français Joseph Sablé. Translate this page Julia Michel, Louise Midy, Madame Miller, Madame S. Mirbel, Léonide Mirbel, MadameLizinska Aimée Zoé Mitford, Miss Marie Russell Mogador, Céleste Moneuse http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/sable/recherche/banques/femmes/auteures/

Accueil Femmes : Auteures Femmes A B C D ... Z A A., Madame d' Abrantès, Laure Junot d' Ackermann, Louise-Victorine Choquet Adhémar, la Comtesse d' ... Ayzac, Mme Félicie d' B Retour au menu B, Anna de Babois, Mme Victorine Bailleul, Clémence ... Butler, Anne F C Retour au menu C, Mme de Cadillan, Mme Claire [voir Renan, Henriette] Caldelar, Mme Adèle ... Custine, Delphine de D Retour au menu D., Mme A. Dadole, Mme Daltenheim, Mme [voir Madame d'Altenheim] ... Duras, la Duchesse Claire de E Retour au menu Edgeworth, Miss Maria Elliott, Mme Emmerich, Soeur ... Des Essarts, Mme Maria F Retour au menu Falaize, Madame C Ferrand, Mme Emma Flaugergues, Mlle Pauline ... Fullerton, Lady Georgiana G Retour au menu G., Mme la Duchesse de Gaix, Coraly de Gally, Mme Camille ... Gustave, Mme Robert H Retour au menu Hahn-Hahn, Ida Hamelin, Fortunée Hanska, Mme ... Hutz, Mlle Louise I Retour au menu Inchbald, Mistress

16. Mitford Miss Read Lays Down Her Pen Miss Read (Dora Saint) wrote more than fortynovels in her long career, and is beloved by readers around the world. http://www.mitfordbooks.com/newsletters/fall 1998_2.htm

Volume 2, Number 6, Fall 1998 PAGE 2 Death Comes for the Archbishop , Willa Cather; Alone , Admiral Richard Byrd; Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs of a Jewish Homesteader , Sophie Trupin; How the Irish Saved Civilization , Thomas Cahill; The Perfect Storm , Sebastian Junger; Collected Poems , Ruth Bell Graham; Great Plains , Ian Frazier. Miss Read Lays Down Her Pen Miss Read (Dora Saint) wrote more than forty novels in her long career, and is beloved by readers around the world. We have corresponded over the years, and I wanted to share this recent card from her home in the Berkshire district of England. "Mrs. Douglas Saint apologizes for this printed reply, but failing eyesight makes handwriting increasingly difficult. She sends her best wishes." On the reverse side, this dear lady wrote, "Lovely to hear from you again... More power to your pen! I've now retired at 84, and am thoroughly enjoying it." We humbly thank Miss Read for the enormous richness, charm and delight she has added to our days. May God bless her tenderly as she pokes about in the garden and takes her ease.

17. Readers' Connection Booklists: If You Like Jan Karon's Mitford Series If You Like Jan Karon's Mitford series, you might enjoy Read, Miss This long seriesof novels depicts English village life as seen through the eyes of Read's http://www.multcolib.org/books/lists/karon.html

Library Catalog Booklists Readers' Connection Home To check the availability of these titles, use the Library Catalog link at the top of this page. All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: M=mystery, SF=science fiction, SS=short story collection, Y=young adult, W=western, NF=non-fiction. Atherton, Nancy Aunt Dimity Series Lori Shepherd and her Aunt Dimity unearth secrets and solve a variety of puzzles in this cozy mystery series set in England. Benson, E.F. Mapp and Lucia titles Mapp and Lucia disregard village conventions and carry on a continuing feud fueled by conflicting garden parties, musical soirées and bridge evenings. Binchy, Dan Last Resort Read more about Brulagh, the Irish village first celebrated in Binchy's The Neon Madonna , pub. 1992. Fireballs This is the third installment in the merry tales of the Irish village of Brulagh. Brown, Carrie Lamb in Love: A Novel Vida Stephen has been nanny for twenty years to the mentally handicapped son of a rich American widower. Every day for most of her life, she nods to Norris Lamb, the postmaster, when calling for her mail. A fussy, stampcollecting bachelor and church organist, Norris has falls suddenly, amazingly, and secretly in love with Vida. Evans, Richard Paul

18. HallKidsReligions.com :: Miss Fannie\'s Hat Not only has she kept me spellbound with The Mitford Years, but Jan Karon has createda terrific platform for children's books as well. Miss Fannie's Hat is a http://hallkidsreligions.com/index.php/Mode/product/AsinSearch/0806635266/name/M

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19. MITFORD, WILLIAM Miss Mitford lived in close attendance on him, refused all holiday invitationsbecause he could not live without her, and worked incessantly for him except http://80.1911encyclopedia.org/M/MI/MITFORD_WILLIAM.htm

document.write(""); MITFORD, WILLIAM The mites of the family Eriophyidae or Phytoptidae produce in various plants pathological results analogous to those produced in animals by parasitical Sarcoptidae and by Demodicidae. As in the Demodicidae the abdomen is elongate and annulate, but the Eriophyidae differ from all other mites in having permanently lost the last two pairs of legs. The excrescences and patches they produce on leaves are called” galls,” the best known of which are perhaps the nail-galls of the lime caused by Eriophyes tiliae. A very large number of species have been described and named after the plants upon which they live. They often inflict very considerable loss upon fruit-growers by destroying the growing buds of the trees. (R. I. P.) work, for although her books sold at high prices, her income did not keep pace with her father’s extravagances. In 1837, however, she received a civil list pension, and five years later her father died. A subscription was raised to pay his debts, and the surplus increased the daughter’s income. Miss Mitford eventually removed to a cottage at Swallowfield, near Reading, where she died on the 10th of January 1855. Her Recollections of a Literary Life (1852) is a series of causeries about her favourite books. Her talk was said by her friends, Mrs Browning and Hengist Home, to have been even more amusing than her books, and five volumes of her Life and Letters, published in 1870 and 1872, show her to have been a delightful letter-writer.

20. Postings On The Board 10/29/99 Julie Grassi banya@bigpond.com Miss Mitford. Dear John,.I can quote you this, from Elizabeth Jenkins' delightful biography http://www.ashton-dennis.org/post1199.html

Cheryl - flogging a dead horse To All, I'm going to flog the dead carcass a little big more and say that the New York Times review of Mansfield Park may provide a somewhat more balanced view of the new film.  At least the reviewer seems to have read either the book itself or the Cliffs Notes and have some knowledge of JA's life.   One of the main problems with movie reviews is often the complete ignorance of the writer:  I read one review of Sense and Sensibility that described the novel as a forward thinking attack on Victorian morals!  And Jane Eyre as having been written in the 17th century.  None of the reviews (of MP) I've read previously gave any indication that reviewer knew anything more about the novels of JA than who starred in the film versions. Okay, I'm going to say something that may appear to be a 180 degree flip flop from what I've been writing, but bear with me if I can remain coherent I should end up back at my original point, more or less.  The reviewer says at one point: "...Ms Rozema has added a few more startling revisionist touches like sex."

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