A Norfolk Flower
“But I must protest against the last plate of all— that very sournoise “Norfolk Flower.” Why, in any corner Norfolk pretty children are as common as blackberries.” —Review: The Academy, Aug. 11, 1888, p. 79
From Chapter XXVI: Peasant Types
“NO one travelling in East Anglia can fail to be struck by the great dissimilarity between the peasants of Norfolk and Suffolk. The Norfolk peasant is bright and cheery; he is civil, and yet manly and independent in his manner; he is never vulgar, and there is a certain fineness of feeling and purity of speech which seem peculiarly his own.” p. 141
