Geographs in Literature
| Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:44 pangapilot |
and Thomas Hardy again: ]                                  and Charles Dickens:  and Robert Burns:  and the Brontes:      |
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| Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:58 Evelyn |
   When the author of the Sherlock Holmes detective mysteries, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), visited Cromer (to recoup from a recent trip to South Africa where he had contracted enteric fever), he heard of a legend according to which one of Black Shuck's - the 'hell hound' of Norfolk - tracks runs through what today is Mill Lane, past what used to be the Royal Links Hotel and over the hill into the grounds of Cromer Hall. It is believed that this ghostly story inspired him to write one of his greatest mysteries, the 'Hound of the Baskervilles' (1902); Doyle knew Lord Cromer and visited with him during his stay, and the description of Cromer Hall almost perfectly matches the description of Baskerville Hall. |
| Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:05 Dr Pepper |
Charles H Sorley, one of the first world war poets mentions this lonely cross roads on the Marlborough Downs   |
| Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:20 Dr Pepper |
William Golding, author of 'Lord of the Flies' lived here at No 29, The Green, Marlborough. As a master at Marlborough College he no doubt saw boys behaviour at first hand, and provided rich material for this unsettling book.      |
| Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:01 Dr Pepper |
I spent a delightful weekend in Swindon! (Not often you see that conjugation) At the association of literary societies, hosted by the Richard Jefferies Society, sandwiched betwen Ms Jane Austen and Ms Virginia Woolf, we explored the countryside of Richard Jefferies, so well known to readers of Bevis; The Gamekeeper at Home; Wild Life in a Southern County; Wood Magic; The Amateur Poacher; Amaryllis at the Fair; The Life of the Fields and my personal favourite The Story of My Heart (Rj's autobiography). If you haven't read any of these, maybe the associated pictures will motivate you to seek them out, it is a richly rewarding journey.                  |
| Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:19 Dr Pepper |
Yet another author out of print, Lady CC Vyvyan writes feelingly about Cornwall and in particular the land around the Helford River, she was also an intimate of Daphne Du Maurier and writes often about the joys of exploring the creeks of the Helford River, including one made famous as Frenchmans Creek. She lived at the ancestral home of the Vyvyan family, Trelowarren, on the south side of the Helford River. Notable titles by her include: The Helford River, Our Cornwall, A Cornish Year, Journey Up The Years, The Scilly Isles, Letters from a Cornish Garden, On Timeless Shores, Nothing Venture and Coloured Pebbles          |
| Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:55 ceridwen |
Matthew Arnold Some time ago I took this image  I'd love to be able to go and take my own photographs of all the other locations mentioned in his two evocatiive poems about the countryside around Oxford, 'The Scholar Gipsy' and 'Thyrsis', published in 1853 and 1866 respectively. The first recounts the tale of an Oxford student who drifted into wandering and legend, and was said to haunt a variety of pastoral settings in the area; the second was written in memory of his friend Arthur Clough and revisits nostalgically the same places they frequented together: Chilswell (Childsworth) Farm  and the Hinksey hills above Oxford  and not far away, Bagley Wood where the gipsies camped  The two Hinkseys   Cumnor (Cumner in the poem)  and its green muffl'd hills The stripl'ng Thames at Bablockhythe  Other places mentioned, along the river above and below Oxford, are Fyfield, Godstow, Wytham, Eynsham (Ensham) and Sandford.      Matthew Arnold himself was an undergraduate at Balliol College  and a Fellow at Oriel  . |
| Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:55 Dr Pepper |
Charles Dickens spent his summer holidays here and wrote several of his later works here including of course Bleak House. In his biography he complains of the noisy children next door in the coastguard cottages- they were my great grandparents with their 8 children!  |
| Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:29 Fasgadh |
Exit Music, Ian Rankin opens with a body found in this street, around about here |
