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Vita’s Folly
Over the past couple of months I have taken you on numerous trips to writers’ houses scattered all over the place : we have trekked across the moors to the Brontës’ home in Haworth, admired the desk at Walter Scott’s … Continue reading
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Tagged ‘Sissinghurst’, Harold Nicolson, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, love of literature, Marie Corelli, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Orlando, Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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Dumas’ Prison
Bonjour readers. Today we are in France, a little beyond Paris, visiting the so-called Chateau Monte Cristo. This was built by Alexandre Dumas père, one of the most successful novelists of the nineteenth century. Begun in 1846 and finished in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Château d’Îf’, Château Monte Cristo, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, The Count of Monte Cristo
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Hawthorne’s Window
It is a widely held romantic notion, that by gazing out of the window of a room in which a favourite author once sat, we gain privileged access to that very same view that inspired the great works of the … Continue reading
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Tagged history of reading, Joseph Enneking, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Mosses from an Old Manse, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Old Manse, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sophia Peabody
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Freud’s Mirror
It is not accidental that mirrors in writer’s house museums are sometimes written up as ‘having once shown such and such’s face to herself’, or as prone to showing the author’s ghost. Nor does the mirror stop at showing lost … Continue reading
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Tagged 20 Maresfield Gardens London, Berggasse, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Psychiatry, Sigmund Freud, Vienna
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Hans Christian Andersen’s Rope
After years of traipsing to writer’s house museums, I have come to the conclusion that there is, and always has been, something that threatens to be inconveniently over-material about these sites. By this, I mean that the writer’s house, … Continue reading
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Tagged Hans Christian Andersen, Hans Christian Andersen Museum, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Lord Byron, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Odense, Shakespeare, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Fairytale of My Life, The Princess and the Pea, Walter Scott
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Dahl’s Shed
I’ve meant to go and see Roald Dahl’s famous writing-hut for ages, and today is the day. It’s an excellent example of an author’s writing-space presented as a place in which you can encounter the moment of creative genesis, which … Continue reading
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Tagged Author’s Desk, Dahl’s Writing Hut, Gipsy House, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
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Brontë’s Bonnet
Clothing very often holds a privileged position within house-museums dedicated to women writers. Charlotte Brontë’s old bedroom includes two glass cases containing clothing either ‘worn by’ or ‘carried by’ Charlotte, as the captions point out. One cabinet, positioned in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Bell Nicholls, Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, Haworth Parsonage Museum, history of reading, Jane Eyre, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Victorian Woman Writer, Villette, Virginia Woolf, Wedding Dress, Wedding-bonnet
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Cowper’s Nightcap
In order to write this post, I will need to put on my thinking cap. We’re all familiar with this phrase as a figure of speech, but in the nineteenth century, there was indeed a strong connection between thoughtful writing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Pope, Charles Dickens, Cowper and Newton Museum Olney, Cowper’s Nightcap, G. K. Chesterton, George Romney, Germaine de Staël, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Oliver Goldsmith, Robert Browning, The Citizen of the World, The Old Curiosity Shop, The Task, Turf and Towers, William Cowper, William Hoare
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Dickinson’s Humming-Birds
In 2010 the photographer Annie Leibovitz paid a visit to the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts. Out of that trip she began to put together a book of photographs and accompanying text, which she published subsequently as Pilgrimage … Continue reading
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Tagged Annie Leibovitz, ‘A Route of Evanescence’, ‘Within my Garden, Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson Museum, history of reading, Humming Bird, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Mabel Loomis Todd, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Poetry, rides a Bird’
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