title: The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary
author:  Jenny Uglow 
description: *Starred Review* Uglow takes such delight in her work that every page shimmers and whirls. On a mission to rescue neglected, radical English artists, such as Thomas Bewick (Natures Engraver, 2007), she now richly and inquisitively portrays brainy and independent Sarah Losh (17861853). Uglow grew up in Cumbria, Loshs home territory, and knows well the wildly unconventional church Losh designed and built in the village of Wreay, a house of worship brimming with imagery drawn from Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, all shaped by Loshs passion for fossils and science. Losh even helped craft the carved stone and wood vines, lotus flowers, dragon, butterflies, raven, bat, eagle, stork, and her favorite, the pinecone, an ancient symbol of regeneration, fertility, and inner enlightenment. What sort of Victorian Englishwoman would construct a pantheistic temple? Bright, willful, and soon motherless, young Losh was supported in her quest for education by her wealthy industrialist father (Uglows history of the family fortune is fascinating) and progressive uncle. Losh deflected her suitors to live a liberated life with her beloved sister, whose death precipitated Loshs phenomenal surge of creativity. Uglow expertly sets Loshs singular story within a historical context as intricately detailed and vital as Loshs church as she shares her profound appreciation for this visionary and her defiant celebration of life and art. --Donna Seaman
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  Anna’s Destiny
  
  
  by Sylvia Damsell
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Copyright: Sylvia Damsell  
  Published: 2020
  
  
  
  
  
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  Designs and Patents Act 1988.  
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  * The author is South African therefore doesn’t spell American. Sorry.
  
  
  * Lone Pine is a town in California.
  
  
  * Middle Pine and Lower Pine are fictitious towns nearby.
  
  
  * The main characters are fictitious but historical facts are as accurate as possible.
  
  
  * The cave with the cross in it