An 18th century biscuit made to commemorate the philanthropy of a set of conjoined twins is to be sold at auction.
Biddenden Cakes were rectangular hard biscuits moulded with an image of Mary and Eliza Chulkhurst, known as the Biddenden Maids.
The twins were born in the village of Biddenden in Kent in 1100 and lived until the age of 34.
Tradition has it that when one of the twins died the other refused to be separated from her twin, saying ‘As we came together we will go together’, and died six hours later.
The sisters are reputed to have bequeathed land to the village, known as the Bread and Cheese Lands, the rent from which was used to pay an annual dole of food and drink to the poor at Easter.
A book detailing the literary confessions of novelists Virginia Woolf and Margaret Kennedy is to be sold at auction.
Really and Truly: A Book of Literary Confessions contains pages of printed questions with 10 sets of handwritten answers, dated between 1923 and 1927.
Among the authors replying to the questions were Rose Macaulay, Rebecca West, Hilaire Belloc, Stella Benson, Woolf and Kennedy.
There are 39 questions, ranging from “who is the greatest genius who ever lived?” to who respondents thought were the best and worst novelists/poets/playwrights/essayists, both dead and living.
Virginia Woolf answered all 39 questions in her distinctive purple ink (Dominic Winter Auctioneers/PA)
A book detailing the literary confessions of novelists Virginia Woolf and Margaret Kennedy is to be sold at auction.
Really and Truly: A Book of Literary Confessions contains pages of printed questions with 10 sets of handwritten answers, dated between 1923 and 1927.
Among the authors replying to the questions were Rose Macaulay, Rebecca West, Hilaire Belloc, Stella Benson, Woolf and Kennedy.
There are 39 questions, ranging from “who is the greatest genius who ever lived?” to who respondents thought were the best and worst novelists/poets/playwrights/essayists, both dead and living.
Virginia Woolf answered all 39 questions in her distinctive purple ink (Dominic Winter Auctioneers/PA)
A book detailing the literary confessions of novelists Virginia Woolf and Margaret Kennedy is to be sold at auction.
Really and Truly: A Book of Literary Confessions contains pages of printed questions with 10 sets of handwritten answers, dated between 1923 and 1927.
Among the authors replying to the questions were Rose Macaulay, Rebecca West, Hilaire Belloc, Stella Benson, Woolf and Kennedy.
There are 39 questions, ranging from “who is the greatest genius who ever lived?” to who respondents thought were the best and worst novelists/poets/playwrights/essayists, both dead and living.
Virginia Woolf answered all 39 questions in her distinctive purple ink (Dominic Winter Auctioneers/PA)
A book detailing the literary confessions of novelists Virginia Woolf and Margaret Kennedy is to be sold at auction.
Really and Truly: A Book of Literary Confessions contains pages of printed questions with 10 sets of handwritten answers, dated between 1923 and 1927.
Among the authors replying to the questions were Rose Macaulay, Rebecca West, Hilaire Belloc, Stella Benson, Woolf and Kennedy.
There are 39 questions, ranging from “who is the greatest genius who ever lived?” to who respondents thought were the best and worst novelists/poets/playwrights/essayists, both dead and living.
Virginia Woolf answered all 39 questions in her distinctive purple ink (Dominic Winter Auctioneers/PA)