The wretchedness of a scheme to Box Hill was in Emma’s thoughts all the evening. How it might be considered by the rest of the party, she could not tell. They, in their different homes, and their different ways, might be looking back on it with pleasure; but in her view it was a morning more completely misspent, more totally bare of rational satisfaction at the time, and more to be abhorred in recollection, than any she had ever passed. – Emma, Jane Austen, Chapter 44
- Re-reading Box Hill: Reading the Practice of Reading Everyday Life offers five articles on the topic of Box Hill. How astounding. Click here to enter the site.
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Sigh. My mind is so tired tonight I cannot remember the novel I was reading just the other day where the characters went to Box Hill. It was a 19th century one, not Trollope. Perhaps it was Mary Ward (Mrs Humphry). At any rate, Austen was not alone in her use of it, and the real place figures in the “garden of England” “Green summery place” imaginary of England.
I’ll post the URL to WWTTA.
Thank you,
Ellen