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    Tag: English Authors

    Queen Mary 2 Interview with Author Joanne Harris

    Interview by Jennifer Ciotta; Introduction by Carly Cassano It was a pleasure for Literary Traveler founder, Francis McGovern, and editor-at-large, Jennifer Ciotta, to travel across…

    Carly Cassano April 2, 2019
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    At Shelley’s Grave: The Ineffable Calico Cat at il Cimitero Straniero

    So I said, most impractically, to the obliging calico cat with yellow eyes, as we turned to depart the old Protestant Cemetery, that walled oasis of g…
    francis October 15, 2018
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    Beatrix Potter, More Than Just Bunnies: The Legacy of Beatrix Potter

    by Deborah Straw Beatrix Potter may be best known as the creator of charming characters like Peter Rabbit, Mrs. Tiggy Winkle and Hunca Munca, but,…

    LiteraryTraveler February 20, 2018
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    Chilling Out with Charles Dickens

    It’s the borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, in southwest London, and it’s still a place for leisure and pleasure today. Walking round places in the …
    Carly Cassano December 1, 2017
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    At Home With Virginia Woolf

    By Chris Hudson In the final entry of her diary on 24th March 1941, Virginia Woolf left no clues to her impending suicide. Four days…

    Carly Cassano March 27, 2016
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    Where Has True Passion Gone?

    by Casey Hassenstein Where has true passion gone? Today, passion and sex are compatriots being thoughtlessly splashed about in the pages of magazines and uploaded…

    Katy February 1, 2015
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    Exploring the Isle of Wight with Alfred Lord Tennyson

    The western tip of England’s Isle of Wight was a setting beloved of the Victorian poet laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson, for the last half of his life…
    Carly Cassano January 25, 2012
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    Chevrolets, Cigars & Men in Graham Greene’s Cuba

    By Lisa Selvidge I arrive in Havana, Cuba, at the end of 2010 together with a guide book and several men: Our Man in Havana,…

    Carly Cassano June 10, 2011
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    The Real Life and Fictional Characters Who Inspired J.M. Barrie’s Captain Hook

    by Rachel McGinnis Captain Hook has been immortalized as one of the greatest, most infamous villains in literature.  Created by James Matthew Barrie in his…

    LiteraryTraveler May 30, 2007
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    The Remains of a Dream: Alexander Pope’s Villa at Twickenham

    By Loredana Massa For a common tourist, nowadays, Twickenham, part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, may mean nothing but a nice little…

    Carly Cassano April 3, 2006
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