Adirondack: life and wildlife in the wild, wild East
Over one hundred years after his death, author, translator and educator Lafcadio Hearn remains one of the best-known Westerners ever to make Japan his home. His prolific writings on things Japanese helped shape Western views on Japan well into the twentieth century. This masterf…
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespear…
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Here, Goldhill makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scott's baronial mansion, Wordsworth's cottage in the Lake District, the Brontë's parsonage, Shakespeare's birthplace, and Freud's office in Hampstead.
A biographical sketch of the family / Melanie Anderson Bourbeau and Cynthia Cormier -- Hill-Stead and its architect / James F. O'Gorman -- The furnishings / Edward S. Cooke, Jr. -- The painting collection / Anne Higonnet -- The landscape, gardens, and farm / Allyson M. Hayward -…