The West Country’s dense layering of prehistoric monuments, medieval settlements, and early modern estates intensifies this effect. When a manor disappears, the absence itself becomes a feature of the landscape, inviting explanation. Infernal narratives provide a vocabulary for articulating that absence.
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Lost manors and infernal agency in the West Country
Landscape, memory, fire, and the moral imagination of place The West Country does not announce its histories loudly; they are found in fragments, in stories told half in passing, in…
Subtly Wrong
Jane Ellery first noticed the change in the sky during the autumn she turned thirty-seven. She lived alone in a narrow brick house overlooking the estuary, a place where the…