Epigraphs: 'I was looking at myself through the lens of history... It was delightful to live with this lovely cast of characters, to engage in an inner conversation with them about the circumstances of my own day.' - Jill Ker Conway, True North, p.56.
'Broad acres are a patent of nobility,; and no man, but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is four thousand miles deep, and that is a very handsome property.' - Charles Dudley Warner, 'Preliminary', My Summer in a Garden (1871).
