The author and publishers wish to thank the following who have kindly given permission for use of copyright materials:
Extract from A Portrait of Jane Austen by David Cecil, published by Constable Publishers;
Extract from The Rehearsal by Jean Anouilh, published by Methuen London;
The Observer, for a quote by Aneurin Bevan © The Observer,
Faber & Faber Ltd for the extract from 'La Figlia Che Piange' in Collected Poems igog-icfiz by T. S. Eliot;
Oxford University Press for the extract from 'austin, Alfred (1835-1913)' from the Oxford Companion to English Literature edited by Margaret Drabble (5th edition 1985);
Don Manley for the extract from the Chambers Crossword Manual (Chambers 1992);
Extract from Marriage and Morals by Bertrand Russell, published by Unwin Hyman;
Kate Champkin for the extract from The Sleeping Life of Aspem Williams by Peter Champkin;
Extract from Further Fables of Our Time, published by Hamish Hamilton, 1956, in the UK and Commonwealth and Simon and Schuster in the US. Copyright © 1956 James Thurber. Copyright © 1984 Helen Thurber.
The Observer, for a quote by Edwina Currie © The Observer;
Extract from The Road to Xanadu by John Livingston Lowes. Copyright 1927 by John Livingston Lowes. Copyright © renewed 1955 by John Wilbur Lowes. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Co. All rights reserved;
Extract from A. E. Housman: Scholar and Poet by Norman Marlow, published by Routledge;
Faber & Faber Ltd for the extract from 'I Have Started to Say', Collected Poems by Philip Larkin;
Extract from Half Truths One and a Half Truths by Karl Kraus, published by Carcanet Press;
The University of Oxford for the extract from the Wytham Woods deed.
Even effort has been made to trace all the copyright holders but if any has been inadvertently overlooked, the author and publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangement at the first opportunity.
Maps of Wytham Woods and Blenheim Park drawn by Graeme James.
From The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling
WYTHAM WOODS