Lolly Willowes and a thousand other felicities

and a thousand other felicities of this magnificent house are captured here in a handsome pictorial essay by noted architectural historian Donald Hoffmann

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This 1790 polemic by one of philosophy's most important and influential figures attempts to establish the principles that support the faculty of judgment

Lolly Willowes and a thousand other felicities"This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead." John Updike Forty seven year old Lolly Willowes is a conventional maiden aunt, an unpaid companion and babysitter to her brothers' children. After years of submission to her controlling family, she develops a longing for the countryside and dark, wild places