Ten more words or names used by A.S. Byatt in Possession that I had to look up the definition of:
- perspicuous (Clearly expressed or presented; easy to understand)
- Aneurin Bevan (Welsh Labour politician, created National Health Service)
- panniers (a pair of packs or baskets hung over the rear wheel of a bicycle)
- flageolet (a small fipple flute resembling the treble recorder)
- phalanstery (A self-sustaining cooperative community of the followers of Fourierism)
- matutinal (of, relating to, or occurring in the morning)
- inditing (to put down in writing)
- coppice (a thicket or grove of small trees)
- Charlotte M. Yonge (Victorian novelist (1823 – 1901))
- Angela Brazil (Victorian novelist of stories for girls)