Don’t bother sitting inside the Saint’s nose
And other travel commentaries by the Abbé Baruffi.
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“See Murray’s guide-book!!”
But be aware that sometimes “Nothing can be farther from correct than Murray’s account of it.”
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Caroline Crane Marsh (CCM) is generally fairly equanimous in her diaries, so I was surprised to see her use the word witch as an epithet for 5 women over the course of the diaries.
Continue reading “CCM’s witches”Adventuring myself into the diaries
Does that title strike you as odd? It does me, but one of the many fun things in reading Caroline Crane Marsh’s diaries is coming across older, now obsolete (or virtually) aspects of English, as is this use of adventure.
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