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Monthly Archives: January 2019
Hardy’s Wessex
We are making the best of that perennial curse, a daughter’s school project, by setting off into Dorset on a day-trip in search of Hardy’s Wessex, armed with a camera and dog-eared copies of Tess of the d’Urbervilles and … Continue reading
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Tagged Casterbridge, Dorchester, Hardy’s Wessex, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, Thomas Hardy
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Lorna Doone Country
Walking ‘in the footsteps of’ a famous author has long been a favourite past-time – and not just one of mine. Since at least the 1790s, when writers began to describe their favourite walks, visitors have retraced them. Rousseau’s descriptions … Continue reading
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Tagged Badgworthy Water, Doone Valley, Exmoor, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Lorna Doone, love of literature, Nicola Watson, R.D. Blackmore, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, The Task, William Cowper
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