Hello, Happy Easter, and I hope you had a good break, if any of that applies to you. It’s been a balmy, breezy week here in Cambridge – unseasonably fine and sunny – and I’ve been making the most of it, dawdling by the river to enjoy the riverside colleges’ fine show of windblown daffodils and tulips (while this good weather lasts, which won’t be long).
Speaking of being out in nature, here’s the second part of my introduction to the Olivier sisters, beginning with a letter that the poet Rupert Brooke wrote to the youngest, Noel (who was still a schoolgirl) about his idyllic life in the village of Grantchester. Her reply wasn’t quite what he was expecting… and years later Virginia Woolf asked her why she hadn’t married Brooke. I’ll be giving a talk about Woolf, Brooke and his ‘neo-pagan’ circle for Literature Cambridge this summer, and you can find more details about the course here.
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