Friday, March 29, 2013

In 1853 the 16-year-old daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, Anny Thackeray, visited Dimbola Lodge on the Isle of Wight. On discovering the highly creative nature of the other guests she was moved to ask,
'Is there no one who is commonplace here?
Is everybody either a poet, or a genius,
or a painter, or peculiar in some way?'

This blog sets out to celebrate the life and times of Mrs Hilda Norris of Yarmouth, the only commonplace person to cross the threshold of Dimbola Lodge.

Color: #fff2cc => #ECE2CB

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