Jacqueline Swerdlow is the leader of the most unusual writers' workshop at West Bromley College. She is totally unperturbed by the new intake of aspiring writers, which includes A. A. Milne, William Wordsworth, George Eliot, August Strindberg, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Mrs Swerdlow manages, with consummate ease, to misunderstand them all as she offers her own brand of literary advice.
A. A. Milne is good-natured and full of generosity and English bonhomie; Wordsworth reads about daffodils and tries to explain about the "common tongue of man"; and Strindberg is positively venomous towards the natural world, declaring daffodils "tumours of the earth".
During the tea break, Strindberg and George Eliot flirt outrageously. Elsewhere, Wordsworth swallows a goodly drop of the strange "tincture" given to him by his best friend, Coleridge.
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