China? Given their one child policy, they can't have children - not sure about them being expelled though.
Two young lovers are stood before a romantic gorge or mountain view admiring the scenary - the only curious thing is that they are standing with their backs to it looking into a kind of mirror. What type of mirror was this ? What was it called ? And what historical period are we likely to be in ?
No, nothing to do with literature. During this period the practice of looking at landscape with aid of a mirror was standard practice for many people.
The wonders of google - would never have known about this without it. A Claude Glass - a small convex mirror used for landscape viewing in the late 18th/early 19th centuries - used by artists, poets and tourists. My mum had one (am hoping my sister still has it) but we never knew what it was for - we thought it was some sort of compact case in which the mirror had lost its reflection... it seems that it may be valuable...
Ah..... there is a large scale installation like that at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. You go in it and the outer landscape is magnified by a convex mirror.
Spot on BB. Named after the French landscape painter Claude Lorraine and changing the reflection of a landscape to suit the then contemporary standards regarding beauty etc. It lends a view an artificial picturesque aspect of foreground, middleground and background - like in a Lorraine painting. Yours might be worth something if it's an original from this period. Over to you.
OK - on a literary theme: Elizabethan dramatist John Day wrote a play titled The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green, around 1600. There is a football connection in the play - what is it?
"I'll play a gole at camp-ball" .. an extremely violent variety of football, which was popular in East Anglia ?
Just to keep us going until Yorkie remembers us. What is significant about 'The Pudding Shop', where is it?, and which future head of state has his signature in the visitors book ?
