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Monthly Archives: July 2020
Vita’s Folly
Over the past couple of months I have taken you on numerous trips to writers’ houses scattered all over the place : we have trekked across the moors to the Brontës’ home in Haworth, admired the desk at Walter Scott’s … Continue reading
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Tagged ‘Sissinghurst’, Harold Nicolson, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, love of literature, Marie Corelli, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Orlando, Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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Dumas’ Prison
Bonjour readers. Today we are in France, a little beyond Paris, visiting the so-called Chateau Monte Cristo. This was built by Alexandre Dumas père, one of the most successful novelists of the nineteenth century. Begun in 1846 and finished in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Château d’Îf’, Château Monte Cristo, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, The Count of Monte Cristo
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