Oh my gosh, so many new followers! That is exciting. :D Don’t worry, I haven’t disappeared! I’ve just kind of been busy with other projects, but I’m ready to start posting landmarks again! Thanks to those of you who have stuck with me even when I seemed to have gone AWOL. New posts coming up soon! :)
Shakespeare in the Garden by juliettetang on Flickr.
Virginia Woolf’s garden writing room by Fioleta on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction… Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own.
F.Scott Fitzgerald House, 1932 by markthelow on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
He wrote Tender Is the Night in this house.
Margaret Mitchell House, Atlanta by edition_of_one on Flickr.
The Margaret Mitchell House, home to the author of Gone With the Wind.
Marshall Ney Statue by Mark Coggins on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
Statue of Marshall Ney (Napoleon’s right hand man) in front of the Cafe Closerie des Lias terrace in Paris, France.
The statue is mentioned by Earnest Hemingway in A MOVEABLE FEAST as well as THE SUN ALSO RISES.
Says Jake Barnes in SUN:
“He looked very fine, Marshal Ney in his top-boots, gesturing with his sword among the green new horse-chestnut leaves.”
“Tintern Abbey” by flash of light on Flickr.
FIVE years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur. — Once again
Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs,
That on a wild secluded scene impress
Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect
The landscape with the quiet of the sky.
Blundeston Church, Suffolk by Cameron Self on Flickr.
Via Flickr:
‘I was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk, or “thereby” as they say in Scotland. I was a posthumous child. My father’s eyes had closed upon the light of this world six months when mine opened on it. There is something strange to me even now, in the reflection that he never saw me; and something stranger yet is the shadowy remembrance that I have of my first childish associations with his white grave-stone in the churchyard, and the indefinable compassion I used to feel for it lying out alone there in the dark night, when our little parlour was warm and bright with fire and candle, and the doors of our house - were almost cruelly, it seemed to me sometimes - bolted and locked against it.’
‘David Copperfield’ by Charles Dickens
Bridge on the Alice Walk by terryballard on Flickr.
Oxford, where the Alice in Wonderland books were written.
Thomas Hardy’s Cottage, Higher Bockhampton, Dorset by Beautiful England on Flickr.
The home of Thomas Hardy, author of Tess of D’Ubervilles and Far From the Madding Crowd
