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Monthly Archives: December 2018
At Loch Katrine
Off to Loch Katrine, in the footsteps, this time, of Scott. Scott was a great one for going to beautiful places, collecting quaint stories about them, and weaving them up into best-selling romances. The consequence was that his readers would … Continue reading
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Tagged history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Loch Katrine, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott Steamer, The Lady of the Lake, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, the Trossachs
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At Haworth
Today’s literary scavenger-hunt takes me to Haworth, home of the Brontës, situated in West Yorkshire. Along with Walter Scott’s Abbotsford, the subject of my last post, Haworth is arguably one of the most important and exemplary writers’ houses of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbotsford, Anne Brontë, Arthur Bell Nicholls, Bramwell Brontë, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Haworth, Jane Eyre, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Sir Walter Scott, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain
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