Towers in the Mist: Week 4
Spring, Summer & the Queen
“Under Magdalen tower the pealing bells were stilled and the procession was halted that the Mayor and city fathers, gathered there to take their leave, might take it with the customary speeches. But it was noticed that though she smiled and bowed at the correct moment the attention of the Queen's Grace seemed inclined to wander; her eyes were continually leaving the earnest perspiring faces of the city fathers and gazing at Magdalen tower, soaring up into the blue sky above her, its ornamented belfry fretting the sky like wing-tips; and when the speeches were over and the farewells said, and the horses once more curvetting forward, she looked up at it and raised her hand in greeting…”
Elizabeth Goudge, Towers in the Mist
Oxfordian history
Welcome to the last of our discussions this month about Towers in the Mist, Elizabeth Goudge’s novel about Elizabethan Oxford.
We will take a look at how in the last few chapters Goudge begins to pan out away from the characters of her story and focus more broadly on Oxford itself—through the seasons and the high days of it’s history.
Hope you can join us today (Wednesday, February 28th at 3pm EST) for a live book discussion! Link below:
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