Sketch by
The Dinner Party, Trollope, Reykjavik, 1878
Trollope’s picnic, Iceland,1878
Sketch by Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn (1823
Trollope at Reykjavik, 1878
The Mastiff arrives in Reykjavik early in the morning. After bathing in the ocean, the travellers go ashore.
The Mastiff at the Faroes, 1878
Sketch by Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn (1823
Trollope at St. Kilda, on the way to Reykjavik, 1878
The Mastiff Built: 1878 Ship Type: Coaster Tonnage: 871 grt Length: 230 feet Breadth: 30 feet Owner: G & J Burns Ltd Glasgow Remarks: Broken up at Genoa 1924
When Anthony Trollope Visited Iceland, 1878
Part 1
As I was growing up in Gimli, Manitoba, nearly everything I was told about Iceland was incorrect. Memories of Iceland were distorted by time and distance. Events and social conditions were filtered through a lens of misunderstanding. In the days of my childhood, people didn
Old photographs
I dredged them out of the crawl space. Plastic yellow and red boxes filled with 35mm colour slides, strips of black and white film in brittle paper sheaths. They
Romance among the radishes
(From my diary. Advice to a recently divorced friend.)
Every generation has its own etiquette. The problem was that when I got divorced, I’d been married for over twenty years, and had no idea what that etiquette was. The last time I’d dated was in 1961.At that time, the big question that raged through the school was whether or not it was all right to kiss on a first date. By the time I was on my own again, the question was whether it was all right to have sex on a first date. I didn’t really believe that until I overheard one of my female students saying,
Denouement in Reykjavik
We had a disagreement during supper. Joseph had misjudged me. He said if I
