Literary by-paths in old England . Rose Cottage, Winchmore Hill stand Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, senior. Nor didthe perpetrator of this humorous wedding recordspare himself, for Hood is to be observed in theright-hand corner, quaffing wine from a commu-nion cup! Notwithstanding that formidable hook, and,what was more to the purpose, a winning sweet- 350 IN OLD ENGLAND ness of disposition, Charlotte Reynolds, as alreadyindicated, remained faithful to the character Hoodmade her assume in his Number One. Sheattained a ripe old age, dying in 1884, after hav-ing lived many years in the Hampstead home o
Literary by-paths in old England . Rose Cottage, Winchmore Hill stand Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds, senior. Nor didthe perpetrator of this humorous wedding recordspare himself, for Hood is to be observed in theright-hand corner, quaffing wine from a commu-nion cup! Notwithstanding that formidable hook, and,what was more to the purpose, a winning sweet- 350 IN OLD ENGLAND ness of disposition, Charlotte Reynolds, as alreadyindicated, remained faithful to the character Hoodmade her assume in his Number One. Sheattained a ripe old age, dying in 1884, after hav-ing lived many years in the Hampstead home of. Lake House, Wanstead her two gifted nephews, the late Mr. CharlesGreen, R. I., and the late Mr. Towneley Green,R. I. When the Hoods removed from Robert Street,some time in 1829, they found their next homein a picturesque cottage on Winchmore some additions have been made to the 351 LITERARY BY-PATHS rear of the building since that date, but other-wise it is unaltered, and with its roomy bay-windows, its creeper-clad walls, and its lovelygarden, it remains to this day a picture of anideal home for a poet. Hoods home instinctstook deeper root at Winchmore Hill than any-where else. He was much attached to it,wrote his daughter, and many years afterwardsI have known him to point out some fanciedresemblance in other places, and say to mymother, Jenny, thats very like Winchmore !In 1832 there came another removal, this timeto Lake House, Wanstead. Here, again, therehas been little change since the days of Hoodstenancy. Wedged in between the borders ofWanstead Park and that nar
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