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  • In June he was married, at Shiplake on the Thames, to Emily Sellwood.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • This is Shiplake church, famed far and near for its magnificent oak carving, and the rich painted glass of its windows, collected, long before such adornments were fashionable, by the fine taste of the late vicar, and therefore filled with the very choicest specimens of mediæval art, chiefly obtained from the remains of the celebrated Abbey of St. Bertin, near St. Omers, sacked during the first

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

  • Family moved to Shiplake, Oxfordshire (December); near Henley.

    George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) Chronology 1929

  • There was a large bay, as it were, of drowned land on the right bank, from below Reading to a point opposite Shiplake, the last wide morass before the marshes of the tidal portion of the river; and another at the mouth of the

    The Historic Thames Hilaire Belloc 1911

  • She had spent the afternoon in the backwaters up by Shiplake; there had been a little dinner afterwards with the old crone who served them so usefully as chaperone -- a dependent who had eyes but did not see, ears which, as she herself declared, "would think scorn to listen."

    Aladdin of London or, Lodestar Max Pemberton 1906

  • Actual daylight failed us as we passed through the lovely reaches of Wargrave and Shiplake; but the moon rose behind us presently.

    News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

  • Actual daylight failed us as we passed through the lovely reaches of Wargrave and Shiplake; but the moon rose behind us presently.

    News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance William Morris 1865

  • On June 13 Tennyson married, at Shiplake, the object of his old, long-tried, and constant affection.

    Alfred Tennyson 1842

  • It's the initiative of Dione Venables, octogenarian cousin of Jacintha Buddicom, the closest female friend of his early youth in Shiplake, and its patron is Richard Blair.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • And in December, there'll be "Animal Farmyard", an evening's entertainment at the Kenton Theatre in Henley-upon-Thames, where young Eric lived after the family moved from Shiplake, featuring a debate, readings and music, all in aid of the laudable efforts by Pete Burness-Smith, a local buff, to open a year-round centre for Orwell appreciation in an old Victorian chapel.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

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