Status Updates From Kilvert's Diary 1870-1879: ...

I love when Kilvert talks to his older parishioners who remember George IV’s coronation and the wars early in the century.

Love these passages about Oxford! And the High Church service was so interesting.

“My bedroom is illuminated all day with a beautiful rosy light from the glorious blossom of the pink may on the lawn” (390).

“At the dairy it was butter morning and Fair Rosamund was making up the sweet rolls of rich golden butter. Mrs Knight says the butter is so golden at this time of year because the cows eat the buttercups. The reason why the whey is so sweet and wholesome in May and June is because the grass is so full of flowers and young sweet herbs” (336).

July 26, 1873’s entry reminds me of Thomas Hardy so much with the sheep and the red dye.