Towers in the Mist: Week 2
An Elizabeth Goudge Readalong
“So fair a poppet... So handsome a couple... So merciful a thing that she had strawberries to give them for their supper. Young love should always be fed on strawberries.”
Elizabeth Goudge, Towers in the Mist, ch 7
Lovers tale
It seemed fitting to have this Valentine’s week reading of Towers in the Mist to include the love story of Nicolas and Joyeuce. In an unlikely turn of events, after their meeting at the morning window, their next encounter is through the bars of the prison, then in the church yard, a well-to-do Taven and garden, and the Christ Church Meadows. We will take a look at the “stage” where their love story played out in Elizabethan Oxford.
The 1945 Duckworth edition has a dust jacket illustration of Joyeuce’s visit to see her brother Giles, and also to catch a glimpse of the incorrigible Nicolas:
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