#English Lakes

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You don't have to go far in the Lake District to become mesmerised

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Once owned by Beatrix Potter, Yew Tree Farm is a Lakeland treasure.

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ever as a waking dream//hazy rays & mossen greens

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Buttermere

James Armes

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Few homes embody the character of the Lake District like 'Hill Top'

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Ullswater

Above bucolic Ullswater, Hallin Fell towards Martindale.

Photographed by Freddie Ardley

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The Lake District

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welcoming greens

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England's Lake District National Park is a haven for lovers of beauty

Lake District - August 2022 Pentax K1000 on Lomography 400

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Lord Byron's first edition copy of Frankenstein (1818), one of only two known surviving copies to be personally inscribed by Mary Shelley (the other is to her friend Mrs. Thomas). Byron took this copy with him when he went into the Greek War of Independence, and it was among his personal things when he died there in 1824:

Mary didn't disclose her name in the inscription because the novel was published anonymously and she initially wanted to keep it that way. However, Byron did reveal her identity in a letter to his publisher, correcting his assumption that Percy was the one who wrote the novel:

"The story of the agreement to write the Ghost-books is true — but the ladies are not Sisters — one is Godwin’s daughter by Mary Wolstonecraft — and the other the present Mrs. Godwin’s daughter by a former husband. Mary Godwin (now Mrs. Shelley) wrote 'Frankenstein' — which you have reviewed thinking it Shelley’s — methinks it is a wonderful work for a Girl of nineteen — not nineteen indeed — at that time."

Under Mary Shelley's consultation, Thomas Moore writes in his Life of Lord Byron (vol III):

"During a week of rain at this time, having amused themselves with reading German ghost-stories, they agreed, at last, to write something in imitation of them. 'You and I,' said Lord Byron to Mrs. Shelley, 'will publish ours together.'"

Percy, writing as Mary with her permission, mentions Byron and himself (in the third-person) in the novel's 1818 preface thus:

"Two other friends (a tale from the pen of one of whom would be far more acceptable to the public than any thing I can ever hope to produce) and myself agreed to write each a story, founded on some supernatural occurrence.

The weather, however, suddenly became serene; and my two friends left me on a journey among the Alps, and lost, in the magnificent scenes which they present, all memory of their ghostly visions. The following tale is the only one which has been completed."

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cr: wander_linaa on instagram

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Sunset over the estuary by Sidney Richard Percy

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Row of oaks at sunset, Geneseo, New York - July 19th 2024

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Country lanes & meadows

Daniel Casson

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What finer location could there be than the lakeside town of Keswick

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No matter how chilly and damp it gets, Lake District cottages are cozy & warm inside.. and their timeless stone will last for millennia.

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