History & The Arts
A day at Doncaster - and an hour out of Durham
...write novels of English high life, and do something to redeem myself a little from the disgrace I had fallen into with my fellow-plebeians by always writing of common Americans, like themselves, and never grandes dames or ideal persons, or people in the best society. But I did not want to go home at once, or turn back from going to Durham through that pleasant landscape,...