2016年5月21日 星期六

Mary Anning. Jane Austen 的小說描述過的地方:英國Lyme Regis 地方及小說家 John Fowles的地方簡史和其二百多年 Belmont House


Mary Anning was born ‪#‎onthisday‬ in 1799, one of the most famous fossil finders of her day. Her family had earned a living for years by gathering fossils on the shore at Lyme Regis in Dorset to sell to collectors, leading to the well-known rhyme: ‘She sells sea shells by the sea shore’. Mary learned about the fossils from her parents. Despite the lack of a formal education, she became an expert on the fossils she found, and the most eminent geologists of the day often sought her advice. In the 1820s she became the first person in Britain to find complete specimens of an ichthyosaur, a plesiosaur and a pterodactyl.
The specimens that Anning collected can still be found in museums throughout Britain. This large skull is part of the skull and lower jaw of an ichthyosaur (Ichthyosaurus platyodon). The British Museum purchased this shortly after Anning discovered it. The Museum’s natural history collections moved to South Kensington in the 1880s and this is now on loan from the Natural History Museum, London, on display in our Enlightenment Gallery.








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Lyme Regis
Lyme
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Lyme Regis from the Cobb
Lyme Regis is located in Dorset
Lyme Regis

 Lyme Regis shown within Dorset
Population 3,671 [1]
OS grid reference SY337922
    - London  130 miles (210 km) 
District West Dorset
Shire county Dorset
Region South West
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town LYME REGIS
Postcode district DT7
Dialling code 01297
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Lyme Regis /ˌlmˈrɪs/ is a coastal town in West Dorset, England, situated 25 miles west of Dorchester and 25 miles (40 km) east of Exeter. The town lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset–Devon border. It is nicknamed "The Pearl of Dorset." The town is noted for the fossils found in the cliffs and beaches, which are part of the Heritage Coast—known commercially as the Jurassic Coast—a World Heritage Site. The harbour wall, "The Cobb", features in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion, and in the film and novel, The French Lieutenant's Woman, by local writer John Fowles.
The town was home to Admiral Sir George Somers, its one time mayor and parliamentarian, who founded the Somers Isles, better known as Bermuda.
At the 2011 Census the town's parish had a population of 3,671.

History

In Saxon times abbots from Sherborne Abbey had salt boiling rights on a plot of land adjacent to the River Lym,[2] and the Abbey once owned part of the town.[3] Lyme is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. In the 13th century it developed into one of the major British ports. A Royal Charter was granted by King Edward I in 1284, with the addition of 'Regis' to the town's name. This charter was confirmed by Elizabeth I in 1591.
John Leland visited the town in the sixteenth century and described it as "a praty market town set in the rootes of an high rokky hille down to the hard shore. There cummith a shalow broke from the hilles about a three miles by north, and cummith fleting on great stones through a stone bridge in the botom."[3]
In 1644, during the English Civil War, Parliamentarians here withstood an eight-week siege by Royalist forces under Prince Maurice. It was at Lyme Regis that the Duke of Monmouth landed at the start of the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685.
In 1965, the town's railway station was closed, as part of the Beeching Axe. It was rebuilt at Alresford, on the Mid Hants Watercress Railway in Hampshire. The route to Lyme Regis had been notable for being operated by aged Victorian locomotives. One of these Adams Radial Tank engines is now preserved on the Bluebell Railway in Sussex.
In 2005, as part of the bicentenary re-enactment of the arrival of the news, aboard the Bermuda sloop HMS Pickle, of Admiral Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the actor playing the part of Trafalgar messenger Lieutenant Lapenotiere was welcomed at Lyme Regis.

Governance

Lyme Regis is twinned with St. George's, Bermuda.

Geography


Blue Lias cliffs at Lyme Regis
Lyme Regis is a coastal town in West Dorset, situated 25 miles west of Dorchester and 25 miles (40 km) east of Exeter. It lies in Lyme Bay, on the English Channel coast at the Dorset-Devon border. In the 2011 Census the town's parish had a population of 3,671.
The town is noted for the fossils found in the cliffs and beaches, which are part of the Heritage Coast—known commercially as the Jurassic Coast—a World Heritage Site. The Jurassic Coast stretches over a distance of 153 kilometres (95 mi), from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks, in the east.[4] The coastal exposures along the coastline provide a continuous sequence of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rock formations spanning approximately 185 million years of the Earth's history. The localities along the Jurassic Coast include a large range of important fossil zones. The Blue Lias rock is host to a multitude of remains from the early Jurassic, a time from which good fossil records are rare.[5] Many of the remains are well preserved, with complete specimens of several important species. Many of the earliest discoveries of dinosaur and other prehistoric reptile remains were made in the area surrounding Lyme Regis, notably those discovered by Mary Anning (1799–1847). Significant finds include Ichthyosaur, Plesiosaur, Dimorphodon, Scelidosaurus (one of the first armoured dinosaurs) and Dapedium. The town now holds an annual Mary Anning Day and Lyme Regis Fossil Festival. A fossil of the world's largest moth was discovered in 1966 at Lyme Regis.
People searching for fossils in Lyme Regis at the fossil festival
People collecting fossils in Lyme Regis at the fossil festival

River Lim

The town has grown around the confluence of the short River Lim (or Lym) with the sea. The Lim drops from the plateau at around 200m before flowing around 5–6 km south and southeast to its mouth. Its name is of British origin and is likely cognate with Welsh 'llif' meaning 'flood', 'stream'.[6] Historically there were various mills along its length. Its lower reaches are followed by sections of three recreational paths; the Wessex Ridgeway, Liberty Trail and East Devon Trail.[7]

Landslips


Landslip, east of Lyme Regis.
To the southwest of Lyme Regis lie Poker's Pool, Seven Rock Point and Pinhay Bay, to the northeast lies Charmouth. The coastal region near Lyme Regis is subject to large landslips. This means that Jurassic age fossils are regularly exposed and can be found on the beaches, but also causes devastation to the town.[8] One of the most spectacular landslips occurred on 24 December 1839, 3 miles (4.8 km) west along the coast in Devon belonging to Bindon Manor and known as "The Dowlands Landslip". About 45 acres (18 ha) of fields growing wheat and turnips were dislodged when a great chasm was formed more than 300 feet (91 m) across, 160 feet (49 m) deep and 0.75 miles (1.21 km) long. The crops remained intact on the top of what became known as "Goat Island" among the newly formed gullies. On 3 February 1840, five weeks later, there was a second landslip nearby but much smaller than the former. This strange phenomenon attracted many visitors, and the canny farmers charged sixpence for entrance and held a grand reaping party when the wheat ripened.[9] The area is now known as The Undercliff and is of great interest because of its diverse natural history.
In 2005, work began on a £16 million engineering project to stabilise the cliffs and protect the town from coastal erosion.[10] The town's main beach was reconstructed and re-opened on 1 July 2006. On the evening of 6 May 2008, a 400 metres (1,300 ft) section of land slipped onto the beach between Lyme Regis and Charmouth. Local Police described the landslip as the "worst for 100 years".[11] This has necessitated the diversion of the South West Coast Path inland from Lyme Regis to Charmouth via the Lyme Regis Golf Course. Latest safety information for fossil hunting, beaches and landslips is available from the Tourist Information Centre located in Church Street, Lyme Regis.

Places of interest

The Cobb


The Cobb, with boats grounded in the harbour at low tide.

View from the The Cobb.
Lyme Regis is well known for "The Cobb", a harbour wall full of character and history. It is an important feature in Jane Austen's novel Persuasion (1818), and in the film The French Lieutenant's Woman, based on the 1969 novel of the same name by local writer John Fowles.
The first written mention of the Cobb is in a 1328 document describing it as having been damaged by storms. The structure was made of oak piles driven into the seabed with boulders stacked between them. The boulders were floated into place tied between empty barrels.
The Cobb was of economic importance to the town and surrounding area, allowing it to develop as both a major port and a shipbuilding centre from the 13th century onwards. Shipbuilding was particularly significant between 1780 and 1850 with around 100 ships launched including a 12-gun Royal Navy brig called HMS Snap.[12] The wall of the Cobb provided both a breakwater to protect the town from storms and an artificial harbour.

The centre of Lyme Regis. Notice the ammonite street light decoration.
Well-sited for trade with France, the port's most prosperous period was from the 16th century until the end of the 18th century, and as recently as 1780 it was larger than Liverpool. The town's importance as a port declined in the 19th century because it was unable to handle the increase in ship sizes.
It was in the Cobb harbour, after the great storm of 1824, that Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN carried out his pioneering lifeboat design work.
A 1685 account describes it as being made of boulders simply heaped up on each other: "an immense mass of stone, of a shape of a demi-lune, with a bar in the middle of the concave: no one stone that lies there was ever touched with a tool or bedded in any sort of cement, but all the pebbles of the see are piled up, and held by their bearings only, and the surge plays in and out through the interstices of the stone in a wonderful manner."
The Cobb has been destroyed or severely damaged by storms several times; it was swept away in 1377 which led to the destruction of 50 boats and 80 houses. The southern arm was added in the 1690s, and rebuilt in 1793 following its destruction in a storm the previous year. This is thought to be the first time that mortar was used in the Cobb's construction. The Cobb was reconstructed in 1820 using Portland Admiralty Roach, a type of Portland stone.
The Cobb also separates Monmouth Beach and Cobb Gate Beach.

Lyme Regis Marine Aquarium

One of the buildings on the Cobb has been converted to house a marine aquarium which displays local fish and marine life from the Jurassic coast. [13] The primary attraction of the aquarium are the Thicklip grey mullet which have been trained to accept food directly from people, including members of the public, by hand. The owners claim that this behaviour is unique to the aquarium.

The Town Mill


Interior of the mill
The watermill, dating from 1340, has been restored to working order and produces flour which is available in its shop.[14] The water comes from the River Lym (also called Lim), which feeds the mill via a "leat". This runs along a terrace or lynch, hence the description of lynch mill. The Domesday Book records the existence of a mill at Lyme in 1086, so the site could be much older. A small brewery, Town Mill Brewery, opened in a part of the Town Mill in March 2010.[15]

St Michael's Church


St Michael's Church

Mary Anning's window at the church
The parish church is St Michael's, on Church Street. Its full title is parish church of St Michael the Archangel. It is situated above Church Cliff and dominates the old town. The church was originally a 12th-century tripartite structure including an axial tower but transepts were added ca. 1200 and later in the 13th-century two aisles. Early in the 16th century a new church was built east of the tower and transepts and the old chancel and aisles removed. The old nave was shortened in the 19th century.[16]
There are three ways to access the churchyard. From Church Street, enter through the archway and up the steps, next to the Boys' Club or from higher up the hill, direct from Church Street. From Long Entry, there is a steep climb either up steps or up the service road in front of the flats overlooking Lyme Bay. Mary Anning is buried here and there is a stained-glass window dedicated to her memory by members of the Geological Society of London, an organisation that did not admit women until 1904.

Lyme Regis Museum


Coade stone ammonites
The museum, built on the site of paelontologist Mary Anning's birthplace and family shop off Bridge Street, houses a large collection of local memorabilia, historical items and exhibits explaining the local geological and palaeontological treasures. The museum was formerly known as the Philpot Museum.[17]
Set into the pavement, outside the museum, is an ornate example of Coade stone work, in the form of ammonites, reflecting both local history (Eleanor Coade) and the palaeontology for which the town is famous.
The Dinosaurland Fossil Museum is also located in Lyme Regis in the former church where Mary Anning was baptised.

Lepers Well

On the West bank of the River Lym near the Town Mill is the site of an old chapel "St Mary & the Holy Spirits", known locally as "Lepers Well". The term "Leper" was used as a blanket description of medieval skin diseases and not necessarily "Leprosy" as it is understood today. There is a small plaque on the wall telling of the hospital which stood on the site 700 years ago. The water still runs today although one assumes in a much reduced flow. Little information survives today, the land was left untouched for many years and some locals can remember livestock being kept on the land before it was landscaped into a visitors garden in the 1970s.

Three Cups Hotel

The Three Cups Hotel between 15 and 19 Broad Street has associations with many famous literary and historical figures. It is believed that Jane Austen stayed in Hiscott’s Boarding house on the same site in 1804.[18] The front section of the current building dates from 1807. The hotel has played host to many famous and influential people including Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton and J. R. R. Tolkien who spent several holidays there. In 1944, General Eisenhower delivered an important briefing to senior officers in the first floor lounge prior to D-Day. The building is of significant architectural and historical interest being mentioned in Pevsner’s Buildings of England volume on Dorset. The hotel was used in the making of the film The French Lieutenant’s Woman in 1981, featuring Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep. The current owners, Palmers Brewery of Bridport closed the hotel in May 1990 and have announced plans to demolish the significantly historic rear of the building and replace it with retail units, restaurant, visitor and private accommodation.[19]

Royal Lion Hotel

The Royal Lion Hotel is a former coaching inn, dated to the first decade of the 17th century. It is reputedly haunted; many unexplained ectoplasms have been sighted in the corridors and cold spots.[20]

Culture


The samba band Street Heat, in the twilight parade marking the end of the 2006 'Lyme Regis Carnival'
The town has a number of annual events, including the 'Lyme Regis Carnival and Regatta', the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival (in conjunction with the London Natural History Museum) and Mary Anning Day. The traditional conger cuddling event takes place during Lifeboat Week. The carnival and regatta is an event which takes place over a whole week, during August and is organised by a committee of local volunteers. All proceeds from the week will be given to local good causes – especially those supporting the young and the old. The week-long summer programme includes yacht and dinghy racing, power boat rides, parades, open air performances in the shelters, sand based games such as egg catching, events such as the golf ball derby and rubber duck races on the River Lym, carnival procession and fireworks. The Lyme Regis Gig Club regatta also takes place during Carnival Week.
Lyme Regis has a recent history of record breaking attempts, 410 people singing Frère Jacques[21] and largest sand ammonite.[22]

Beach Bonfire, Lyme Regis. November 2010.
The bonfire night spectacular includes torchlight procession, bonfire on the beach and a firework display. The Christmas Tree Festival has over 30 trees decorated by local organisations in Lyme Regis Baptist Church. An Easter bonnet parade takes place each year in the town on Easter Sunday. A May Day fete has stalls and entertainment from different Lyme groups. Thanks Giving Day has been held since Parliament decreed at the end of the English Civil War that there should be a day of celebration and prayer in Lyme to commemorate the end of the unsuccessful siege of Lyme by the Royalist forces, which was one of the longest sieges of the Civil War. It is celebrated in Lyme by dressing in clothes of the period and parading through the streets. Lyme Regis Football club was formed in 1885 and celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2010. To mark the event Ex-West Ham, Everton and England striker Tony Cottee was made club patron. The club, known as 'the Seasiders', is situated on at the Davey Fort Ground on Charmouth Road and has three senior teams and five junior teams. The senior teams play in the Perry Street & District League.

Notable people

  • Mary Anning (1799–1847) was an early British fossil collector and palaeontologist.[23]
  • Jane Austen visited Lyme Regis three times in 1803 and 1804 staying for several weeks in the summer of 1804. The dramatic events in Persuasion led to a flow of fans to the town: the poet Tennyson is said to have gone straight to the Cobb on his arrival, saying, "Show me the exact spot where Louisa Musgrove fell!"[24]
  • Thomas Coram (c 1688–1751), founder of the Foundling Hospital in London.[25]
  • Eleanor Coade (1733–1821), manufacturer of the artificial stone known as coade stone, owned 'Belmont House' from 1784 until 1821.[25]
  • John Fowles, who lived in Lyme Regis for 35 years, latterly in 'Belmont House', based his novel The French Lieutenant's Woman there.[26]
  • Percy Gilchrist, the metallurgist, was born in Lyme Regis. He is most notable for his work in steel production.[27]
  • Abraham Hayward (1801–1884), writer and essayist who, with his father Joseph Hayward, an amateur horticulturist of 'Westhill', Silver Street, Lyme Regis, successfully brought a landmark case in the 1840s on behalf of the citizens of Lyme Regis, to maintain a permanent right of way for the town's citizens across the cliffs to Axmouth and Seaton.[28]
  • John Gould (1804–1881), artist and ornithologist, was born in Lyme Regis. He wrote and illustrated 18 books about birds including those from Australia. The Gould League is named after him.[27]
  • Maj Gen Sir E. B. Rowcroft (1881–1963), British Army officer and founder of REME retired to and died in Lyme Regis.[29]

See also


Ammonite-design streetlamps reflect the town's location on the Jurassic Coast

References

  1. ^ "Parish Population Data". Dorset County Council. 14 March 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  2. ^ Ralph Wightman (1983). Portrait of Dorset (4 ed.). Robert Hale Ltd. p. 163. ISBN 0 7090 0844 9.
  3. ^ a b Sir Frederick Treves (1905). Highways and Byways in Dorset (1 ed.). MacMillan and Co., Ltd. p. 268.
  4. ^ "Dorset and East Devon Coast". UNESCO World Heritage Centre. 2001. Retrieved 14 January 2007.
  5. ^ Benton MJ, Spencer PS (1995). Fossil Reptiles of Great Britain. Chapman & Hall. ISBN 0-412-62040-5.
  6. ^ Ekwall, E. 1981. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (4th edn) Oxford
  7. ^ Ordnance Survey 1:25,000 scale Explorer map 29, Lyme Regis & Bridport
  8. ^ "Town fears more landslides". BBC News England. 8 January 2003. Retrieved 5 July 2006.
  9. ^ The Undercliff. Philpot Museum website, Lyme Regis. Accessed 2006-09-01.
  10. ^ "Popular beach reopens for summer". BBC News. 1 July 2005. Retrieved 5 July 2006.
  11. ^ "Landslip is 'worst in 100 years". BBC News. 7 May 2008. Retrieved 7 May 2008. [Includes video]
  12. ^ Fowles John (1991). A Short History of Lyme Regis. Dovecote Press. pp. 34–35. ISBN 0-946159-93-9.
  13. ^ http://www.lymeregismarineaquarium.co.uk/ Lyme Regis Marine Aquarium
  14. ^ http://www.townmill.org.uk/ Town Mill, Lyme Regis
  15. ^ "News & Events". www.townmillbrewery.com. Retrieved 2 May 2010.
  16. ^ Betjeman, John, ed. (1968) Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches; the South. London: Collins; p. 175
  17. ^ Lyme Regis Museum: About Us
  18. ^ The (New) Three Cups by Jo Draper, All Over The Town, Journal of The Lyme Regis Society, June 2007
  19. ^ Architectural Appraisal and Assessment of Special Interest: Three Cups Hotel, Broad Street, Lyme Regis - Forum Heritage Services (January 2010)
  20. ^ "The Royal Lion Hotel". Haunted Britain. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
  21. ^ hublyme, 2011, frere-jacques
  22. ^ Lyme Regis Carnival 2011
  23. ^ Hilliam, David (2010). The Little Book of Dorset. Stroud, Glos.: The History Press. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-7524-5704-8.
  24. ^ Article by John Vaughan in Monthly Packet (1893). Quoted in Hill, Constance (1923) [1901]. "Chapter 13: Lyme". Jane Austen: Her Homes & Her Friends. Ellen G. Hill (illustrator) (3rd edition ed.). John Lane, The Bodley Head. p. 140. Retrieved 1 September 2006.
  25. ^ a b Hilliam, David (2010). The Little Book of Dorset. Stroud, Glos.: The History Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-7524-5704-8.
  26. ^ Hilliam, David (2010). The Little Book of Dorset. Stroud, Glos.: The History Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-7524-5704-8.
  27. ^ a b Hilliam, David (2010). The Little Book of Dorset. Stroud, Glos.: The History Press. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-7524-5704-8.
  28. ^ Chessell, Antony (2009). The Life and Times of Abraham Hayward, QC. Lulu Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4092-2467-9
  29. ^ The Craftsman XIX (2): 37. February 1964.

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    Author John Fowles's Dorset house to become a centre for young writers

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    John Fowles poses at his home in Lyme Regis, Dorset, in 1985. Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images
    In 1999, six years before he died, the novelist John Fowles wrote that despite its beauty, acres of garden, ravishing views and historic interest – not only as his home but that of the pioneering Georgian businesswoman, Eleanor Coade he – was failing to give away his beloved house in Lyme Regis, Dorset.
    He dreamed the Grade II* listed Belmont House could become a centre "for young writers and artists" who would be as inspired by its beauty and history as he. The main windows of the room where he wrote look straight out to sea, or steeply down to the Cobb where he sent his melancholy heroine, The French Lieutenant's Woman, on her solitary walks. His desk, possibly to give him some defence from the distractions of such a view, was set at right angles to it.
    He had lost count of the institutions he approached, he wrote sadly, including the University of East Anglia, famed for the creative writing course co-founded by his friend Malcolm Bradbury, of which he was an honorary graduate. None felt capable of taking it on.
    One American demanded assurance that the property could never suffer from landslip: since the house is perched halfway up a cliff on the Jurassic Coast, where for centuries fossil hunters have flocked to pry treasures from the rapidly eroding slopes, he could give no such promise.
    Now, though there are many more cracks in walls and terrace, and the garden is even more of a jungle than he affectionately complained of, his wishes may come true.
    The Landmark Trust, which restores historic buildings, has bought Belmont from Fowles's widow Sarah, and is fundraising to restore it not just as a holiday rental like its other properties, but a residential centre for young writers. This time the University of East Anglia, whose graduates include Anne Enright, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, has said yes.
    Discussions are also ongoing with Royal Holloway and other academic institutions.
    The move is an innovation for the Landmark, but one which its new director Anna Keay hopes to build on at other properties.
    "I love the thought of bringing that literary life back into the house, and making the whole place not just a nicely restored old building but a living memorial to Fowles and his work," she said.
    "The history of this house is already so rich and multilayered, it's nice to think of adding another chapter."
    Many of the trust's properties are eccentric, including a pineapple-shaped summer house, a palatial water tower and a pigsty designed as a Greek temple.
    The extraordinary facade of Belmont, a plain Georgian box bristling with applied decoration including sea monsters, urns and a head of Neptune, will fit perfectly into the portfolio.
    The house was a summer home and a sort of three dimensional trade card for the formidable Eleanor Coade, who manufactured classical figures, architectural ornaments and garden statues at Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory in Lambeth, out of an artificial stone which has proved astonishingly tough.
    The facade is sadly damp-stained and cracked, and inside ceilings, verandah and windows are propped to prevent collapse: the fierce little dolphins, made in the 1780s, are as crisp as if made yesterday.
    Fowles, who was for many years curator of the Lyme Regis museum, was fascinated by Coade – "that very rare thing, both an artist and a successful early woman industrialist".
    The trust has now won planning permission to demolish the shabby stumps of once ornate Victorian wings added by later owners, but will keep a charming observatory added in the 1880s by a Victorian GP, Richard Bangay.
    They plan to restore the surviving mechanism on which the entire roof once rotated and opened, and reinstate a telescope – and, they hope, some visiting astronomers too.
    Another rare survivor, a little stable building, will become an exhibition space telling the story of the house and its owners.
    When Keay first saw the building she felt she had been there before. "Everything about it, the views, the steep scramble down through the garden to the Cobb, even the fact that there really had been a telescope like the one the doctor in the French Lieutenant's Woman uses to spy on women on the beach, seemed so familiar it was almost eerie."
    In fact, although Fowles had obviously already paced every inch of the settings he used in the novel, he bought the house just after he finished the book which became even more famous as the 1981 Harold Pinter-scripted film starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons.
    In his journal for September 7 1968 he recorded both the house and the telegrammed reaction of his publisher, Tom Maschler.
    "I have offered £18,000 for Belmont House. 'The French Lieutenant's Woman is magnificent, no less. Congratulations. Letter follows. Love Tom'. That's a relief."

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