The best blogs have beautiful pictures. This will have to do for now! It’s a sampler created in 1844 by someone named Fanny Benzie, who lived in Tunbridge. I inherited it from my grandmother, though I don’t think Fanny is a distant relative. It has a wonderfully Victorian text about how industry and perseverance will make us happy, citing King Alfred as a model for his hard graft in the secular and spiritual realms.