The Cottage Porch
Gertrude Jekyll, 1843-1932
before 1904
6 x 4 inches
Old West Surrey, p. 232
"The daily life of the cottager varied so little in one cottage or another, or in one village or the next, that the usual restriction of ideas and interests was only to be expected; but every now and then it was a pleasure to find some cottage housewife with a distinct taste for some occupation, or a general aptitude for wider interests. Sometimes it was patchwork, or beautiful plain needle- work; a thing that by long practice became almost an extra sense" (Jekyll 230).
Scanned image and text Jacqueline Banerjee
