I am reading _Vanessa Bell_ (1879-1961) -- Virginia Woolf's sister -- by Frances Spalding (Weidenfeld and Nicolson), and there's this reference to this song I don't think I've heard of before. Any lead as to lyricist or composer or year (tune a bonus) welcome. I think I would like like it. The reference is in chapter 14, 'The Attic Studio 1945-1961': "In old age, as Angelica [Vanessa Bell's daughter] has written, 'her movements were slow, tentative, almost enquiring, but immensely dignified'; and when, as sometimes happened after dinnar at Charleston [Sussex, next to Newhaven, Sussex], she agreed to sing *the only song she knew* [emphasis mine. JLS], the 'Old Manorial House', 'she stood there slightly self-conscious, noble and yet amused at herself and *the ridiculous words*, and we felt a genuine, if hilarious admiration '(Angelica Garnett, _The Web of Kindness_)". (Spalding, p. 328). Cheers, JL ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html