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Monthly Archives: August 2019
Desks
Imagining ‘an author’ means first of all imagining them as a body, and then in a landscape, and then ‘at home’. It also entails imagining the origin and act of writing. This has resulted in the fetishization of writers’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Alloway, Alphonse de Lamartine, ‘To a Mouse’, British Library, Charlotte Brontë, Chawton Cottage, George Sand, Haworth Parsonage Museum, history of reading, Jane Austen, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Pride and Prejudice, Robert Burns, Victor Hugo
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Entrances
Now for four entrances and one escape-hatch. For a writer, a door is desirable because it shuts (one hopes) everyone out. As Alexander Pope wrote, ‘Shut, shut the door, good John! Fatigu’d I said,/Tie up the knocker, say … Continue reading
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Tagged 17 Gough Square, Alexander Pope, Dove Cottage, Elizabeth Gaskell, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot, Grasmere, Haworth Parsonage, history of reading, Howarth Parsonage Museum, Ile St Pierre Switzerland, Jane Eyre, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johnson’s cat, Life of Charlotte Brontë, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, Literary Reminiscences, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Napoleon, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Rydal Mount, Samuel Johnson, Thomas de Quincey, William Wordsworth
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