In York, England, on August 27, 1911, she writes:
“…Tuesday was, I am sure, the most delightful day we have yet spent. We took the coach drive to Buttermere Lake and back. The road is beautiful, grand, awe-inspiring—and wild enough in places. We enjoyed the whole day. And I may as well admit that after all the best part of it was the two hours after lunch at Buttermere when we sat alone together on a little wooded eminence overhanging the lake and forgot all the rest of the world in a little bit of ‘honeymooning’ in our green seclusion.
Wednesday morning we took a motor drive of 80 miles around Lake Windermere, calling at Wordsworth’s grace and the quaint little cottage where he lived for twenty years after his marriage and where we talked with an old lady who in her girlhood had been a maid of Wordsworth’s and his wife…
Thursday afternoon we went to Leeds and next morning motored twenty miles through a very ugly country to Haworth to visit the home and burial place of Charlotte Bronte. We could not see the interior of the old Parsonage where she lived her strange life and wrote her compelling books, but it was something to see it from the outside…”
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Source: The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery – Volume II: 1910-1921
