Final Word

This week's Final Word first appeared as a desolate dwelling in a Victorian monthly:

"But I know that my dearest little pets are very pretty, and that my darling is very beautiful, and that my husband is very handsome, and that my guardian has the brightest and most benevolent face that ever was seen; and that they can very well do without much beauty in me - even supposing."

The winner of last week's competition, who identified Seamus Heaney's Exposure , is Julie Morrissey of Bakewell, Derbyshire.