We (…) saw the queer little Schloss, which used to be Amalia’s residence (…). The walls of every room are crowded with engravings, and the tables with rococo wares. There is a suite of rooms which are so small that the largest of them does not take up as much space as a good dining table, and each of these small rooms is crowded with prints, old china, and all sorts of knick-knacks.
– from George Eliot, Recollections of Weimar
Comment by Bob Muscutt read by Andrew Charlwood;
extended reading from George Eliot, Recollections of Weimar, by and with Margot Erbslöh.
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