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My Favourite Writer’s House
There’s currently a boom in the making of writer’s house museums across the world, and twenty-first century culture bids fair to produce more and more writer’s house museums. The internet revolution continues to … Continue reading
Exit Through the Gift Shop: Taking Things
In my last few posts I’ve talked about what it was that romantic and Victorian visitors brought with them, and left behind, when visiting writers homes and haunts. Today we shall explore the third and final part of this trilogy: … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbotsford, Alexander Pope, Alfred Tennyson, Alloway, Anne Hathaway’s cottage, Ayrshire; Dumfries, ‘To a Nightingale’, Chalfont St Giles, Charles Dickens, Coniston, Dove Cottage, Felicia Hemans, Gad’s Hill, George Eliot, Hampstead, history of reading, Horace Walpole, John Bunyan, John Keats, John Milton, John Ruskin, Kenilworth, Keswick, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Loch Katrine, Lord Byron, love of literature, Melrose Abbey, Mrs Emma Shay, Newstead Abbey, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Olney, Poet’s Corner, Robert Burns, Robert Southey, Rydal Mount, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Gardens, Sir Walter Scott, Stoke Poges, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Strawberry Hill, Thomas Gray, Tintern Abbey, Twickenham, Westminster Abbey, William Cowper, William Wordsworth
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Exit through the Gift Shop: Leaving things
In my last post I discussed the Victorian practice of bringing books to read in the authors’ homes and haunts. Today, I will be turning from what visitors brought to writers’ homes, to what they left behind. These two things … Continue reading
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Tagged An Account of the Principal Pleasure Tours of England and Wales, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Stratford-Upon-Avon, William Shakespeare
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Exit through the Gift Shop: Bringing Things
If my endless accounts of literary stalking have inspired you to embark on your own visit to a writer’s house, there is one vital item that you’ll need to squeeze into your suitcase, if you’ve not done so already. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont, Edward Gibbon, Germaine de Staël, history of reading, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Lord Byron, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Voltaire
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Shakespeare’s New Place
Let me fast-forward two centuries from my last post, fly back across the Atlantic, and transport you to Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon. The redevelopment of New Place commemorating Shakespeare’s death in 2016 offers a test of the extent to which the idea … Continue reading
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Tagged history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, New Place, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Romantic Shakespeare, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Sir John Soane, The Tempest, Tim O’Brien, University of Birmingham, William Shakespeare
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Irving’s Sunnyside
From a tower in Kent to a country retreat in upstate New York: today’s destination is Washington Irving’s ‘Sunnyside’, founding site of American literature.
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Tagged Abbotsford, ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’, history of reading, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Sir Walter Scott, Sunnyside, The Sketchbook, Washington Irving
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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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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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