Written interpretation doesn’t always need to be upright. Here’s a charming example of a quotation from Charlotte Brontë, set in a stone in the garden at Plymouth Grove, home of fellow author Mrs Gaskell.

Charlotte visited in June 1851 when the weather was very hot and the windows were open. She wrote to George Smith, her publisher that:  “…a whispering of leaves and a perfume of flowers always pervaded the rooms.”

And now the quotation has been set in the flowerbed opposite the Drawing Room window. Nice touch.