As a writer, she certainly had sharp talons
One of the more unusual tributes to an Irish writer abroad was unveiled earlier this month at England’s Winchester Cathedral.
The bird is a recent arrival at the cathedral but has taken up residence with a longer established male falcon, “William”, after she performed the traditional courtship ritual of killing his mate.Sermon on the Mounts — Frank McNally on a biblical week in CheltenhamI’m paraphrasing a little there.
It was her travels in Germany, starting in 1799 and bringing her into contact with many famous and powerful people, that turned Trench into a writer, partly via a private diary she kept from then until the end of her life. Alas, despite the nominative coincidence, Trench does not make that anthology. But I was amused in passing by the earliest writer included, German aristocrat Ludolf von Munchhausen , who left this vivid vignette of Kilkenny in March 1590:
Of Lady Hamilton’s attempts to befriend her, for example, Trench confesses: “Still she does not gain upon me. I think her bold, daring, vain even to folly, and stamped with the manners of her first situation ”.
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