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At Abbotsford
A writer’s birthplace like that of Shakespeare’s is of course in some sense a ‘writer’s house’. But it is almost never the house in which the writing has actually been done, the workshop of genius. One house that does speak … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbotsford, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nicola Watson, Sir Walter Scott, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, Thomas Dibdin
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Celebrating Shakespeare’s Birthday
So here I am again in Stratford-upon-Avon, togged up in my increasingly disreputable DPhil gown from Oxford (this year the blue facings seem not only to have faded to a definite mauve, but to have become weirdly blotchy), carrying a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alloway, David Garrick, Great Fire of London, John Milton, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Robert Burns, Shakespeare Jubilee, Stratford-Upon-Avon, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, William Shakespeare
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At Burns’s Mausoleum
Today’s adventure leaves the warmth of Rome for the wet of Scotland (brrr!), and a must-see location for the pilgrim to poetic graves, Robert Burns’s mausoleum in Dumfries. In my last posts I described how my journeys to the graves … Continue reading
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Tagged Burns’s Grave, Dorothy Wordsworth, Dumfries, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Poems; Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, Robert Burns, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, William Wordsworth
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At a poet’s grave in a country churchyard
Today’s adventure took me to Stoke Poges, to what is quite possibly the most famous churchyard in Britain. And why is it so famous, you ask? Well, this is the ‘country churchyard’ which Thomas Gray wrote about in his … Continue reading
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Tagged Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Poet’s Corner, Stoke Poges, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, Thomas Gray
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Series 1: Adventures of a literary stalker
So there I was, standing soaked right through to my M & S bra high up on the Yorkshire moors, peering through the twilight to get a photo of a cliff annoyingly obscured by gusts of rain. Ten minutes later, … Continue reading
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Tagged 221B Baker Street, Abbotsford, Brontë Parsonage Museum Haworth, Charles Kingsley, Chawton Cottage, Doone Valley, Emily Brontë, Harry Potter, Higher Bockhampton, history of reading, Jane Austen, John Keats, Keats’s House Hampstead, Kensington Gardens, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Loch Katrine, Loch Lomond, Lorna Doone, love of literature, Malham Cove, nicola j. watson, Nicola Watson, Platform 9 ¾, R.D. Blackmore, Rhymer’s Stone, Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, Thomas Hardy
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The writer’s desk
The writer’s desk Weimar is home to a lot of history, not least the Weimar republic, Hitler, and Buchenwald – but I went to research happier times, the so-called ‘Goethe-zeit’ when Goethe, having single-handedly dreamt up German romanticism with his … Continue reading
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Austen at her desk
Last June, I went to Winchester Cathedral to marvel at their flower festival, and, as a scholar of Austen, to photograph the grave, brass plaque, and stained-glass window that between them memorialise her there. Plunging into a particularly excited and … Continue reading
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Dogs of Genius
Post 9 Dogs of Genius August 2013 In the dog-days of August all academics should be on the beach rather than in the research library. It is the silly season, and its silliness may suitably tinge even the serious business … Continue reading
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Travels in the Library
Post 8 Travels in the Library July 2013 These last two weeks, I have been hunkered down in the Upper Reading Room of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, reading. To my right, coat, bag, phone, and a pile of eighteenth … Continue reading
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