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Visiting Rousseau on the Île St Pierre
© Tourismus Biel Seeland Another month, another author’s home. Those of you fond of mountains and lakes will be pleased to hear that we’re heading out of Geneva, and making our way to the Île St Pierre, for … Continue reading
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Tagged Île St Pierre, F.S. Wagner, Geneva, history of reading, James Boswell, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie: ou, La Nouvelle Hélöise, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Nicola Watson 'Rousseau on the Tourist Trail', Nikolai Karamzin, Romanticism Rousseau Switzerland: New Propects ed. Angela Esterhammer Diane Piccitto Patrick Vincent
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Series 2: Visiting Voltaire at Ferney
In 1764, the young James Boswell, already a confirmed celebrity hound, headed to Switzerland to visit two famous figures then living in the environs of Geneva: Rousseau, presently retired in the little village of Môtiers-Travers, and Voltaire, holding court at … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Rousseau on the Tourist Trail', Albert Montémont, Ferney, Geneva, history of reading, James Boswell, James Fenimore Cooper, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Louis Simond, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Nikolai Karamzin, Romanticism Rousseau Switzerland: New Propects ed. Angela Esterhammer Diane Piccitto Patrick Vincent, Voltaire
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In Lyra’s Oxford
I suppose what I have been exploring in this series of literary adventures is the impulse to experience for real places that one first found through books. Poets’ graves seem to offer a temporal and physical limit to the slightly … Continue reading
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Tagged His Dark Materials, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Lyra’s Bench, Lyra’s Oxford, Nicola Watson, Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford Literary Festival, Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass, The Book of Dust, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain
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At Green Knowe
I’ve been thinking more about book illustrations and how they work to produce tourist effects, and remembering in particular another expedition I undertook with the children to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Green Knowe, Hemingford Gray, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Lucy Boston, Nicola Watson, The Children of Green Knowe, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain
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At Beatrix Potter’s House
Today we’re away in imagination to Hill Top Farm, Cumbria, once home to children’s author Beatrix Potter. Of course, the children don’t care much about Beatrix Potter’s life; they care about the world of the books which is much … Continue reading
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Tagged Beatrix Potter, Hill Top Farm, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Peter Rabbit, Rupert Potter, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers, The Tale of the Pie and the Pattypan, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Two Bad Mice
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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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At Loch Katrine
Off to Loch Katrine, in the footsteps, this time, of Scott. Scott was a great one for going to beautiful places, collecting quaint stories about them, and weaving them up into best-selling romances. The consequence was that his readers would … Continue reading
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Tagged history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Loch Katrine, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Sir Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott Steamer, The Lady of the Lake, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain, the Trossachs
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At Haworth
Today’s literary scavenger-hunt takes me to Haworth, home of the Brontës, situated in West Yorkshire. Along with Walter Scott’s Abbotsford, the subject of my last post, Haworth is arguably one of the most important and exemplary writers’ houses of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbotsford, Anne Brontë, Arthur Bell Nicholls, Bramwell Brontë, Brontë Parsonage Museum, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Haworth, Jane Eyre, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Sir Walter Scott, The Literary Tourist: Readers and Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain
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