A British Heritage commonplace book

‘I THINK I MAY BOAST MYSELF TO BE, WITH ALL POSSIBLE VANITY, THE MOST UNLEARNED AND UNINFORMED FEMALE WHO EVER DARED TO BE AN AUTHORESS.’
Jane Austen

PAUL FELIX

‘WHAT A BOOK A DEVIL’S CHAPLAIN MIGHT WRITE ON THE CLUMSY, WASTEFUL, BLUNDERING, LOW AND HORRIBLY CRUEL WORKS OF NATURE!’
Charles Darwin

‘If any one of London’s railway stations deserves to be a shrine, it’s Paddington. Its departure board reads like a romantic novel, as it flicks through Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds and the very heart of England.’
Mark Wallington

‘YES, I REMEMBER ADLESTROP-THE NAME, BECAUSE ONE AFTERNOON OF HEAT THE EXPRESS TRAIN DREW UP THERE UNWONTEDLY. IT WAS LATE JUNE.’
Edward Thomas

‘For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?’
Jane Austen