![]() She was thrust back into the eighteenth century. Rosemary, until then a rather unimaginative, proper little girl, was plunged into an extraordinary adventure in spite of herself. Cover art, synopsis, sequels, reviews, awards, publishing history, genres, and time. What seems on the surface to be a perfectly innocent folk song turns out to be riddle of devilish complexity. So begins the old Simon and Garfunkel song Scarborough Fair, borrowed from the Elizabethans, and a fine lot they were. ![]() Every time she touched the "thyme," time stopped! Parsley Sage, Rosemary, And Time By Jane Louise Curry - FictionDB. Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme, Remember me to one who lives there, She once was a true love of mine. flies hung in mid-flight, a measuring worm paused in mid-reach. Everything but Rosemary was stopped motionless. ![]() Not only did it have a peculiar taste it had a most astonishing power over Time itself. And the word "Time" that Rosemary discovered cut into a moss-covered stone in her aunt's old herb garden in Main should have been spelled "Thyme," because of the herb growing around it-or so Rosemary thought until she picked a sprig. ![]() ![]() Rosemary was ten-year-old Rosemary Walpole. It's been such a long time since I've reread it, though, that I'll have to summarize the plot using the blurb from the inside cover of the 1975 Athenium first edition: Some of you who have read this might not know about its sequel, The Magical Cupboard (see my review). ![]()
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