An American Liaison: Leamington Spa and the Hawthornes, 1855-1864Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1998 - 472 páginas In 1855 the Hawthornes came to Leamington Spa for the first time. This book presents an almost day-by-day account of the family's life during three periods of residence in Leamington. It also relates how they amused and instructed themselves in the thriving Spa town and its attractive surrounding countryside, making trips to such well-known "tourist traps" as Coventry, Warwick, Rugby, Kenilworth, and Stratford-upon-Avon. Unfortunately, for several reasons, to a large extent the subsequent and much-anticipated return to their home in Concord, Massachusetts, in 1860 did not result in any real benefit. |
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... walk around the town . The rain , however , did put something of a damper on the meeting of the local Oddfellows Society ( one of the several friendly societies in the town that lent money to needy residents ) . A procession had taken ...
... walk around the town . The rain , however , did put something of a damper on the meeting of the local Oddfellows Society ( one of the several friendly societies in the town that lent money to needy residents ) . A procession had taken ...
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... walk this evening very much . Tomorrow will be the 19th & these wise men say the weather will be fair & lovely till the 10th September . So we shall have a lovely summer , at least , for our travels . We have a vixonella of a ...
... walk this evening very much . Tomorrow will be the 19th & these wise men say the weather will be fair & lovely till the 10th September . So we shall have a lovely summer , at least , for our travels . We have a vixonella of a ...
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... walk - in areas for larders and wine cellars . At the rear of the house there remains the original coach house , the only one left standing in the crescent . The ground floor consists of two large rooms , the front one possibly hav- ing ...
... walk - in areas for larders and wine cellars . At the rear of the house there remains the original coach house , the only one left standing in the crescent . The ground floor consists of two large rooms , the front one possibly hav- ing ...
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... walking up to the Parade or down to the Royal Pump Rooms and Baths . No one took the opportunity of writing any ... walks [ this ] forenoon and afternoon — very pleasant walks ; but as I mean to take many more such , I defer a ...
... walking up to the Parade or down to the Royal Pump Rooms and Baths . No one took the opportunity of writing any ... walks [ this ] forenoon and afternoon — very pleasant walks ; but as I mean to take many more such , I defer a ...
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... walk through what looked like a park , but seemed to be a sort of semi - public tract on the outskirts of the town ... walking beneath it , but only enough too warm to assure us that it was warm enough . And . after all . there was an ...
... walk through what looked like a park , but seemed to be a sort of semi - public tract on the outskirts of the town ... walking beneath it , but only enough too warm to assure us that it was warm enough . And . after all . there was an ...
Índice
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66 | |
An Intermission 1 | 91 |
Genteel Leamington September 1857 | 99 |
Leamington that cheerfullest of English Towns October 1857 | 139 |
This goodly town of Leamington November 1857 | 218 |
An Intermission 2 | 237 |
An unfashionable part of Leamington October 1859 | 244 |
We have real winter weather in Leamington December 1859 | 280 |
Dr Sutherland says Leamington is a bad locality for me JanuaryFebruary 1860 | 297 |
That weary old Leamington March 1860 | 320 |
This English trash | 359 |
The End of the Affair 186364 | 399 |
Notes and References | 415 |
Index | 465 |
Leamington is not so desirable a residence in winter November 1859 | 264 |
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An American Liaison: Leamington Spa and the Hawthornes, 1855-1864 Bryan Homer Visualização de excertos - 1998 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
American ancient antiquity appears arched arrived Avon Bath beautiful BEINECKE transcript Bennoch bright chapel church consulate cottages Coventry dear Clay dearest delightful Donatello Earl Earl of Warwick edifice Elder Elizabeth Peabody England English extant Fanny Faun feel garden Guy's Cliffe Hall Hawthorne Hawthorne's hope Hospital interest journal Kenilworth Kenilworth Castle lady Lansdowne Crescent Leamington leave letter Lillington Liverpool lodgings London look Marble Faun Mary Monday morning Nath Nathaniel Nathaniel Hawthorne never October Paris perhaps person pleasant probably received Redcar river Leam road Romance Rome Saturday scene seems seen side Sophia stone story Stratford Stratford-upon-Avon street suppose tell thee things thought Ticknor took a walk tower town trees Uttoxeter walked with Julian Warwick Castle Warwickshire weather week Whitnash wish write wrote
Passagens conhecidas
Página 418 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, That from the hunters...
Página 422 - Hark, hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise: Arise, arise.
Página 398 - ... to sink the volume, there is so much the more need that an old friend should stand by him. I cannot, merely on account of pecuniary profit or literary reputation, go back from what I have deliberately felt and thought it right...
Página 438 - Olympus habet. Stay passenger, why goest thou by so fast? Read, if thou canst, whom envious death hath plast Within this monument: Shakespeare with whome Quick nature dide; whose name doth deck ys tombe Far more than cost; sith all yt he hath writt Leaves living art but page to serve his witt. Obiit ano. doi 1616. Aetatis 53, Die 23 Ap.
Página 366 - ... across broad fields, and through wooded parks, leading you to little hamlets of thatched cottages, ancient, solitary farmhouses, picturesque old mills, streamlets, pools, and all those quiet, secret, unexpected, yet strangely familiar features of English scenery that Tennyson shows us in his idylls and eclogues. These by-paths admit the wayfarer into the very heart of rural life, and yet do not burden him with a sense of intrusiveness. He has a right to go whithersoever they lead him ; for, with...
Página 344 - He designed the story and the characters to bear, of course, a certain relation to human nature and human life, but still to be so artfully and airily removed from our mundane sphere, that some laws and proprieties of their own should be implicitly and insensibly acknowledged.
Página 215 - Fitz-James alone wore cap and plume. To him each lady's look was lent, On him each courtier's eye was bent, Midst furs and silks and jewels sheen He stood, in simple Lincoln green, The centre of the glittering ring, — And Snowdoun's Knight is Scotland's King! As wreath of snow, on mountain breast, Slides from the rock that gave it rest, Poor Ellen glided from her stay, And at the Monarch's feet she lay; No word her choking voice commands : She showed the ring, she clasped her hands.
Página 310 - Have you ever read the novels of Anthony Trollope? They precisely suit my taste, - solid and substantial, written on the strength of beef and through the inspiration of ale, and just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its inhabitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of.
Página 310 - Leamington in England (I was then in Italy) : — " I received your letter from Florence, and conclude that you are now in Rome, and probably enjoying the Carnival, — a tame description of which, by the by, I have introduced into my Romance. " I thank you most heartily for your kind wishes in favor of the forthcoming work, and sincerely join my own prayers to yours in its behalf, but without much confidence of a good result. My own opinion is, that I am not really a popular writer, and that what...