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The Eighteenth-Century Tourist Does Cambridge
Not the Grand Tourist, off (accompanied by his tutor or ‘bear-leader’) to sow his wild oats on the Continent and return loaded with art works and antiquities of all kinds to embellish the ancestral home, but the more modest traveller … Continue reading
Posted in Cambridge, History, Literary Studies, Printing and Publishing History, Travel and Exploration, Women's Writing
Tagged Addenbrooke's, Botanic Gardens, Cambridge, Cambridge University, Celia Fiennes, colleges, Great St Mary's church, Jane Austen, Round Church, Senate House, University Library
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Image and reality
Some writers’ names conjure an instant image: Shakespeare – receding hair, small beard, dark, hooded eyes, a quill pen in his hand. Jane Austen – round face, eyes demurely averted from the viewer, mouth not quite smiling, goffered white cap … Continue reading
The Naval Chronicle
In the Naval Chronicle for July-December 1805, we can read the despatch received by their Lordships of the Admiralty at 1 o’clock a.m. on 6 November. This was written by Vice-Admiral Collingwood on 22 October, and begins, ‘Sir, The ever … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literary Studies
Tagged Battle of Trafalgar, Jane Austen, Lord Nelson, Military and Naval, Naval Chronicle
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