Wicken

Prowse, Elizabeth, née Sharp, (1733 – 1810), of Wicken Park, Northamptonshire: one of the circle of Sharps to which Bloomfield gained access through Mary Lloyd Baker.

Index of People 2009

After Elizabeth's death in 1810, Elizabeth's estate at Wicken Park,

Letter 346 2009

Her grandfather, Wicken, came across the Sierras in 1846.

CHAPTER X 2010

With respect to Miss Sharp's communication from Wicken, I made a delay and delay caused a blunder &c.

Letter 187 2009

** Wicken Park in Northamptonshire where she lived.

Letter 248 2009

One day in the Winter Summer when for a long time I had heard nothing from Clare Hall or from Fullham, I trudged to the latter place and found that Mrs Sharp had much recoverd, and that the family were then at Wicken.

Letter 245 2009

Inconspicuously drab and streaked olive brown and buff, they are like a color chart of the time of day they sing in, the thinning tones and lost pigments of dusk and night, and of the habitat they live in, their winters buried in the grasslands of Senegal, their summers hiding in the reeds of Wicken, and their night flights of migration between.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

Below the egret at Wicken is its antithesis, a hidden bird making a noise like a small mechanical pump.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

I have been to Wicken Fen a few miles north of Cambridge many times before, but this evening in early July it is more landlocked than ever before.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

At Wicken two birds sing, the near male in purring battle with a neighboring one, both hidden, to define and contest the invisible boundary of their territories and to attract an invisible mate.

A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009