{"id":251,"date":"2020-01-15T17:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T17:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=251"},"modified":"2018-07-03T14:45:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T14:45:41","slug":"speaking-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Speaking Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My very last post in this series! It\u2019s about how whole houses have been made to speak in the author\u2019s voice, so making the long-past and long-dead into a perpetual, first person presence. I think the reason for doing this is because the author springs into renewed life with each act of reading, existing for readers in a perpetual present. More, the author sets up an intimate relationship with the reader, which readers have wished both to honour and somehow bring more plausibly into their own physical world. Place responds by embodying the author and speaking in the author\u2019s voice.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dove Cottage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here, for example, is the garden at Dove Cottage. The ever-changing quotations from Dorothy\u2019s diary make it her garden, evoking her going the round of her daily seasonal household tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Dorothy Wordsworth see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=212\" >https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=212<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Lerici<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If Dove Cottage speaks in Dorothy\u2019s voice, the house in Lerici where Mary Shelley waited in vain for her husband to return after the storm in the bay, is made to speak in Shelley\u2019s voice through plaques fixed to the walls.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Shelley see \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=119\" >https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=119<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=247\" >https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=247<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 My very last post in this series! It\u2019s about how whole houses have been made to speak in the author\u2019s voice, so making the long-past and long-dead into a perpetual, first person presence. I think the reason for doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/?p=251\" >Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,208,28,303,33,34,35,32,31,30,29,131,264],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dorothy-wordsworth","tag-dove-cottage","tag-history-of-reading","tag-lerici","tag-literary-landmark","tag-literary-landscape","tag-literary-museums","tag-literary-pilgrimage","tag-literary-tourism","tag-literary-tourist","tag-love-of-literature","tag-mary-wollstonecraft-shelley","tag-nicola-watson-the-authors-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/literarytourist\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}