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⇒ Cover ⇒ Preface ⇒ Introduction ⇒ The visit ⇒ Weymouth map c.1930 ⇒ Portland map c.1930 ⇒ Works quoted ⇒ Postface |
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A visit to Weymouth with John Cowper Powys [ ⇒
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A partial map of Weymouth seafront including the house on Brunswick Terrace from which this view of the Eastern prospect over the sea was taken through the open window of an attic room at Penn House. The blue object visible against the background of the sea is the upper part of one of the rather characteristic lamp posts installed along the Esplanade long before Weymouth Sands was written. "But Penn House, Brunswick Terrace, brings back to me many sensations besides tea-drinking. The bow windows of the drawing room opened straight on the Esplanade - which was very narrow just there - and on the pebbled bank of the sea across whose surface to the West you saw Portland and to the East the White Nose and St. Alban's Head..." (J. C. Powys, Autobiography ). NB: Surprisingly, J. C. Powys's sense of direction leads him astray with respect to Portland, which is just about due South from Penn House! |
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