A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors
A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors
Theodore Frelinghuysen Wolfe
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This is the Cheverel Manor of " Gilfil," an imposing castellated structure of gray stone, with flanking towers and great mullioned windows G byGoogk A Literary Pilgrimage of multishaped panes, famous for its elaborately decorated ceilings. That George Eliot had often been within this mansion is shown by her familiarity with the arrangement and ornamenta- tion of the rooms, accurately described as scenes of many incidents of the tale. In the grounds, too, the imagery of the " Love Story" may be ...perfectly realized : here are the lawn where little Caterina sat with Lady Cheverel, and the shim- mering pool, with its swans and water-lilies, which was searched for her corpse the morning of her flight ; at a little distance we find " Moss- lands," and the cottage of the gardener to which the dead body of Wybrow was carried; and, farther away, the spot under giant limes where the poor girl, coming to meet her recreant lover "with a dagger in her dress and murder in her heart," found him lying dead in the path, his hand clutching the dark leaves, his eyes unheed- ing the "sunlight that darted upon them be- tween the boughs." A touching incident in the life of a former owner of Arbury was made the plot of Otway's tragedy " The Orphan." A mile northward from Griff is the quaint church of Chilvers Coton, where Mary Ann was christened at the age of a week, where a little later her " devotional patience" was fostered by smuggled bread-and-butter, and where as .child.
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