Goodnight from St Catherine’s Hill whose ruined chapel overlooks Winchester, the one-time capital of Anglia, and through whose ancient woods the footsteps of ghostly pilgrims echo on their way to Canterbury. #This_Iron_Race #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor

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Goodnight from #Princess_Maria_Isabel wondering as she lies half-asleep in her bed at the #Tower_of_Winchester whether #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor will grant her deepest desire to return to Spain or if she must forever be Prince William’s widow. #This_Iron_Race

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Goodnight from the Madeleine Shrine at #Arbinger_Abbey. Few have climbed the spiral staircase of #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor ’s monument to his first wife, but those who have claim the view from the summit is seen differently. #The_Reluctant_Ascent_of_Nevil_Warbrook

#Richard_Wagner, b. Leipzig 1813, d. Venice 1883. A preeminent 19th century opera composer best known for Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde, and The Ring Cycle. Among his lesser works is #Oberion, an operetta with a libretto adapted by #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor from his poem ‘Lays of Brigadoon’.

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#King_Charles_VII of Scotland and England reigned 1832-1874. Regarded as kindly but ineffectual and extravagant. Became a principal supporter of #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor, appointing him #Master_of_the_Kings_Revels in 1853 and again after MacGregor’s illness in 1862.

"Sorcerer or not (and should we care?), MacGregor was a consummate conjuror of words," Kate Ferne, author of Minotaur #This_Iron_Race #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor #Book_review

"A Gothic tale of strange happenings in the Scottish Hills, clairvoyance, disembodied souls, affliction, wandering spirits, orphaned children, royal scandal, and murder," Orson Parish, author of Rye Harvest #This_Iron_Race #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor #Book_review avebury.press

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#Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor, b. Leith 1811, d. Arbinger 1872. Acknowledged in his lifetime as Scotland’s foremost novelist, he is best known today for Edmund Pevensie, pub. 1857, and the recently restored #This_Iron_Race, orig. pub. 1864-1868. avebury.press/tamburlaine-...

"At the height of his powers in the middle years of the nineteenth century #Sir_Tamburlaine_Bryce_MacGregor was the preeminent Scottish writer and the equal of any in Greater Britain," Destiny McCloud, Edenborough Review.
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