tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63266142864596027182012-01-11T13:28:40.760+11:00An altered book project - imaginary journals of an English gentlewoman chronicaling her travels and adventures in the wider world and the perils she encountered.If the internet had been invented in the 1800's Matilda would have been a blogger.Ericanoreply@blogger.comBlogger31100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326614286459602718.post-37549265050010902122006-12-04T00:33:00.000+11:002006-12-04T00:54:42.182+11:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/312844592/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/103/312844592_3d2780a58e.jpg" width="500" height="253" alt="The Chronicles of Matilda" /></a><br /><br />Our family is rather small compared to some of our counterparts in this latter part of the Victorian era. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/312844595/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/115/312844595_3cc03d6483.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Chronicles of Matilda" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/312844596/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/110/312844596_9a8851208f.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Chronicles of Matilda" /></a><br /><br />My dearest papa is in business and travels to London each day by steam train <br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/312844599/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/110/312844599_b0bd576598.jpg" width="500" height="285" alt="The Chronicles of Matilda" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/312844602/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/119/312844602_cdac3bce1e.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Chronicles of Matilda" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/312844603/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/103/312844603_e605f31248.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Chronicles of Matilda" /></a><br /><br />whilst dearest mama rules over our country domain with an abstemious authority. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/312846359/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/107/312846359_11cf8b82e0.jpg" width="500" height="307" alt="The Chronicles of Matilda" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/312846361/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/112/312846361_e60e6fbbb2.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Chronicles of Matilda" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/312846360/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/115/312846360_78cc4a2222.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="The Chronicles of Matilda" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6326614286459602718-3754926505001090212?l=matildaschronicles.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ericanoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326614286459602718.post-6840808391050197062006-11-25T16:54:00.000+11:002006-12-04T00:57:37.808+11:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/305478544/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/104/305478544_59d369e7f9.jpg" width="500" height="284" alt="Matilda - 3 beginning" /></a><br /><br />Perhaps I should begin my story at the beginning<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/305478543/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/119/305478543_782814b206.jpg" width="500" height="400" alt="Matilda - 2 beginning" /></a><br /><br />I am Matilda or 'Tillie' (to use my brothers' favourite diminutive) and I was born in the year 1878.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/305478546/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/111/305478546_7e9db603c8.jpg" width="500" height="393" alt="Matilda - 4 beginning" /></a><br /><br />I am told my elder brother, Andrew, was delighted to have a little sister.<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/305480742/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/121/305480742_dd1a47d743.jpg" width="500" height="381" alt="Matilda - 6 beginning" /></a><br /><br />I was never a demure little girl and was frequently admonished for my unladylike manner.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/305478547/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/105/305478547_622817cc15.jpg" width="500" height="290" alt="Matilda - 5 beginning" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6326614286459602718-684080839105019706?l=matildaschronicles.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ericanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6326614286459602718.post-82331802644598620772006-11-20T00:00:00.000+11:002006-11-25T20:28:00.617+11:00<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gramarye/305478541/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/114/305478541_e0f97d5196.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Matilda - 1 introduction" /></a><br /><br />On the eve of my embarkation upon my adventures I have decided to keep a journal to record my travels.<br />I have kept a diary from an early age, it amuses me now to read back my girlish whims and fancies, perchance in my later years I will look on this journal in a similar fashion.<br /><br />signed<br />Matilda Wantingmoore<br />Kent, England<br />1897<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6326614286459602718-8233180264459862077?l=matildaschronicles.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Ericanoreply@blogger.com8