George Sand: Her Majorcan Winter of Discontent
Never before-and possibly never since-has a Mediterranean island inspired as much enmity as did the Spanish isle of Majorca for prolific French writer and protofeminist…
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O’Henry and The Gift of the Magi
By Mary Pat Musick Do you remember the first time reading O’Henry’s The Gift of the Magi? Do you recall the lump in your throat…
Robert Louis Stevenson – Always in Edinburgh
In the 19th Century, poverty and disease were rife throughout Edinburgh's Old Town. Cobbled streets and narrow lanes harboured the dangerous and the d…
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…
Gods and Monsters
Towering mountains, the Cyclops Coast and the sparkling Mediterranean have beckoned seafarers, conquerors and tourists to Sicily since Neolithic times…
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in Oxford
Oxford, the City of Dreaming Spires, is undoubtedly one of the jewels in England's crown. Its striking mix of architectural styles, academic atmosphe…
Elementary, My Dear Watson
Ferry across the Connecticut River, from Chester to Hadlyme, to a "Once upon a time," kingdom. Perched on the summit of "The Seventh Sister" the highe…
D. H. Lawrence Revisted
The lonely desert mesas stretched to a line of mountains etched on the stark blue horizon. At an elevation of 7,000 feet the morning air was crisp an…
Places Where Hemingway Fished in Michigan
by William Burr One of the first streams Hemingway fished was School Creek, not far from Walloon Lake. As his skill with a fly rod…
Mark Twain in Unionville, Nevada
by Peggy Jones In the middle of a driving snowstorm in the winter of 1861, a ragtag bunch of prospectors arrived in Unionville, Nevada. They built…