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Monthly Archives: June 2020
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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