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Monthly Archives: November 2018
At Abbotsford
A writer’s birthplace like that of Shakespeare’s is of course in some sense a ‘writer’s house’. But it is almost never the house in which the writing has actually been done, the workshop of genius. One house that does speak … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbotsford, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nicola Watson, Sir Walter Scott, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, Thomas Dibdin
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Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday
So here I am again in Stratford-upon-Avon, togged up in my increasingly disreputable DPhil gown from Oxford (this year the blue facings seem not only to have faded to a definite mauve, but to have become weirdly blotchy), carrying a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alloway, David Garrick, Great Fire of London, John Milton, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Robert Burns, Shakespeare Jubilee, Stratford-Upon-Avon, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, William Shakespeare
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