https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/05/12/faulkners-street-cries/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 04 Jan 2014 04:58:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/05/12/faulkners-street-cries/#comment-234308 Sat, 04 Jan 2014 04:58:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=62033#comment-234308 The “Street Cries” of the myriad characters explicated and produced by Faulkner of London are of particular interest to me at this moment, as I am absorbing the irascible characters of another Faulkner (William, that is) near his home of Oxford, Mississippi. The idiosyncratic complexity of the Faulkners’ respective characters cause me to muse on whether there might be any ancestral connection between them. Hmm …

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/05/12/faulkners-street-cries/#comment-47679 Sat, 12 May 2012 23:38:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=62033#comment-47679 Yet again you have posted another completely captivating slice of history. I don’t post very often (sorry), but really look forward to reading your blog!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2012/05/12/faulkners-street-cries/#comment-47613 Sat, 12 May 2012 05:45:14 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=62033#comment-47613 Amazingly, several of these were still around in my London childhood….and I’m a post -war baby

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