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The story is set in the strange uncanny landscape of Romney Marsh, on the borders of Kent and Sussex. Puck - in the guise of Tom Shoesmith, a long-dead friend of Ralph Hobden - tells how the 'people of the hills' flitted out of England in the 1530s. They were much troubled by the cruelty and suffering caused by the religious conflicts of the day, and decided they would have to go. They crowded onto the marsh, on the edge of England, and the air was full of their discontents. They called on the Widow Whitgift to help them, and lend them her two sons to carry them over the sea. They did so, and since one was blind, and the other unable to speak, they could tell nothing of what they had seen. \r\n","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Arthur Rackham. The Widow Whitgift and her sons. Illustration to \"Dymchurch Flit\" in  Rudyard Kipling's \"Puck of Pook's  Hill\". Great Britain, 1906.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Engen, Rodney. <i>The Age of Enchantment. 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Widow Whitgift has two sons, one blind and one dumb, and once she has given the Pharisees leave to go, her sons row the boat to carry all of the fairies of England out to France to escape. The story if told by Puck in the guise of Tom Shoesmith, a long-dead friend of the children's gardener Ralph Hobden.\nJames Hamilton believes Rackham is here 'parodying the Newlyn School paintings of fishermen and their lives by Stanhope Forbes and others'. The Widow Whitgift and her two sons are shown standing in the strange uncanny landscape of Romney Marsh, on the borders of Kent and Sussex, surrounded by fairy-like creatures at their feet, who are pleading with them with expressions of worry and woe.\n\nSigned and dated '06, pen and ink and watercolour. 30.8 x 24.5 cm.\nVictoria and Albert Museum. Bequeathed by Mrs. Frances Draper from the Page Draper Collection. 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