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The Fens
wheat
wild Fenland (Wicken Fen).
First page proofs
Eviction notice, Ten Mile Bank, Littleport, 1814
The Fens
William Shelley
Villa Diodati
opium pipes, Wisbech Museum
Flatford Mill
St Martin-in-the-Fields church
The Wheat Field, John Constable, 1816
common fenland reeds
Shelley
common reeds, River Cam.
Constable oil sketch, Dedham Vale, 1816.
Willow, River Stour
St Martin-in-the-Fields church
Stour valley
Littleport village sign
Spencean Philanthropists
Memorial to five Littleport rioters.
Weymouth Bay, Constable, October 1816. (V&A).
Opium poppy
Early 19thc Littleport map.
Memorial to five Littleport rioters.
‘…but all hail to icy winter…’, 1816 letter, New Hampshire, (Peterboro archive).
Littleport village sign.
Littleport village sign.
Peterboro Archive
John Constable
Wivenhoe Park, Constable, July 1816.
Littleport village sign.
Constable oil sketch of Dedham Lock, 1816.
Plough, 1813.
Weymouth Bay, Constable, October 1816.
Shelleys, route across Europe, 1814, 1816, 1818.
Handbill, Littleport riot. (Cambridgeshire Record Office).
cutlass used at Littleport riot, Wisbech Museum.
John Constable
Constable oil sketches, V&A.
Littleport, 1829. (Bedford Level Commission archive, Cambridgeshire Record Office).
Frontispiece, 1831 edition, Frankenstein, Mary Shelley.
East Bergholt Common, Constable, 1814.
Mount Tambora.
Constable oil sketch, 1816. V&A.
East Bergholt church
Mary Shelley
The Fens, 1723. (Bedford Level Commission archive, Cambridgeshire Record Office).
Littleport, 1833. (Bedford Level Commission archive, Cambridgeshire Record Office).
mid 18th c, Billingsgate market.
Lord Byron, 1813.
Sumbawa, 1855.
Claire Clairmont.
Guinevere Glasfurd 