British Author House Museums and Other Memorials: A Guide to Sites in England, Ireland, Scotland and WalesMcFarland, 2015 M09 16 - 392 páginas The most celebrated authors of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales are immortalized not only in their writing but also in the museums, libraries, and other memorials dedicated in their honor. Over 300 sites devoted to 40 authors are covered in this guide. The sites range from restored historic homes to memorial statues. Each entry describes the site and its history, placing it within the context of the author's life and career. Directions are provided to help the reader reach each site; telephone numbers, admission prices, and hours are also included for the traveler's convenience. The text is illustrated with photographs from these historic and literary homes, libraries, and other important memorial locations. Postage stamps commemorating the writers are also included. |
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2 Sir James Barrie Kirriemuir Scotland and London England | 25 |
3 The Brontë Sisters Yorkshire England | 36 |
4 John Bunyan Bedford and London England | 57 |
5 Robert Burns Sites Throughout Scotland | 71 |
6 George Gordon Lord Byron Nottingham England | 93 |
7 Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle Ecclefechann and Haddington Scotland and London England | 96 |
18 Rudyard Kipling East Sussex England | 233 |
19 DH Lawrence Eastwood and Nottingham England | 244 |
20 John Milton Buckinghamshire England | 256 |
21 Beatrix Potter Cumbria Gloucester and Suffolk England and Dunkeld Scotland | 264 |
22 John Ruskin Conistan and Cumbria England | 277 |
23 Sir Walter Scott Edinburgh and the Border Country Scotland | 284 |
24 William Shakespeare StratforduponAvon and London England | 298 |
25 George Bernard Shaw Dublin Ireland and Hertfordshire England | 317 |
8 Agatha Christie Devon England | 113 |
9 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Somerset and Yorkshire England | 125 |
10 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle London England | 135 |
11 Charles Dickens Portsmouth London and Kent England | 146 |
12 Daphne du Maurier Cornwall England | 172 |
13 Thomas Hardy Dorset England | 181 |
14 Henry James East Sussex England | 192 |
15 Samuel Johnson and James Boswell Lichfield and London England and Auchinleck and Edinburgh Scotland | 199 |
16 James Joyce Dublin and Galway Ireland | 213 |
17 John Keats London England | 227 |
26 Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Bournemouth England | 328 |
27 Edith Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell Scarborough England | 332 |
28 Robert Louis Stevenson Edinburgh Scotland | 335 |
29 Alfred Lord Tennyson Isle of Wight England | 338 |
30 Dylan Thomas Swansea and Laugharne Wales | 342 |
31 Virginia Woolf London Surrey and East Sussex England | 353 |
32 William Wordsworth Cumbria England | 359 |
33 William Butler Yeats Sligo and Galway Ireland | 372 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Abbey Agatha Christie Barrie Barrie’s Beatrix Potter bedroom birth birthplace born Branwell Brontë Bunyan Burns’s bust Carlyle Carlyle’s Centre century Charles Dickens Charlotte Chawton child Christie’s church Coleridge commemorated cottage D.H. Lawrence Daphne du Maurier daughter death Dickens’s died display Dublin Dumfries Dylan Thomas e›ect e›ort Emily England exhibit family’s famous father film Gad’s Hill Gallery garden Hardy Hardy’s Henry James Jamaica Inn James Joyce Jane Austen Jane’s John John Bunyan Johnson Joyce’s Keats Kipling Kipling’s kitchen Lamb House Lawrence’s letter literary lived London Mary memorial Milton museum National Trust novel o‡ce Open painting Peter Pan photograph pilgrims plaque play poem poet poet’s poetry portrait published Robert Burns Ruskin Scotland Shakespeare Shaw Shaw’s Sherlock Holmes Sir Walter sister stamp story Street Theatre Thomas Hardy tion visitors walk Walter Scott wife William Wordsworth writing wrote Yeats young