Author's Note

Author’s Note

The poem The Farmer’s Bride was written by Charlotte Mew in the nineteenth century.

Her poems centre around death, depression and insanity.

I read this poem and, after doing some analysis, decided it had such disturbing implications that it would be a brilliant and fittingly horrific story.

I then thought, ‘but what if the farmer had kept a diary? Or a blog.’

Thus, Autumn Leaves was born.

Please enjoy it and do tell me how it could be improved. I’m always looking to get better at writing.

(As copyright in the UK extends seventy years after the creator’s death, in this case in 1928, the poem is in the public domain. As such, the excerpts are freely used.)