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England
Revisiting a country with a deep literary history is where Literary Traveler is heading. England, known as one of literary capitals of the world, continues to bring us brilliant writing and writers. Discover unknown facts about Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling. Live vicariously through the distinguished Ian Fleming and his jet-setting character James Bond. In addition these modern authors are usually influenced by the classics, which we are bringing to our readers as well. Join us in the breathtaking Lake District as we seek out Wordsworth's natural inspiration for his poetry. Wander through London's overcrowded, poverty-stricken streets in a book review of Oliver Twist. In our Feature article, explore the luxuriously extravagant Brown's Hotel in London--a place of rest for The Jungle Book's Rudyard Kipling and other famous literary guests.
Wordsworth's Lake District
Author: William Wordsworth
Eagerly, I stared out the window of a packed coach bus as we rode through the narrow, windy roads leading to the Lake District of northwestern England. The scenery was gorgeous--small mountains, dark blue lakes, pastures full of sheep, varieties of trees, and running streams covered the land. While watching the beauty before me, it became clear why William Wordsworth, poet and native of the Lake District, wrote so passionately about nature.
Posted on Mon, Oct 01, 2007
The Truth About Harry Potter's Mysterious Conception
Author: J.K. Rowling
In 1990, Joanne Rowling, the author that goes by the widely known moniker J.K. Rowling, boarded a crowded train traveling from Manchester to London. She had just finished a weekend of flat-hunting and was sitting on the train when she was suddenly struck by the idea of writing a story about a young boy coming to terms with the fact that he's a wizard.
Posted on Sat, Sep 29, 2007
The Short Life of Rupert Brooke
On the Greek Island of Skyros, its shores lapped with Byron's "wine-dark
sea", is a lonely grave. Buried here is Rupert Chawner Brooke - writer,
poet and playwright. Strikingly good-looking, he was described by the Irish
poet W.B. Yeats as "the most handsome young man in England."
Posted on Mon, Nov 13, 2006
The Remains of a Dream: Alexander Pope's Villa at Twickenham
Author: Alexander Pope
For a common tourist, nowadays, Twickenham, part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, may mean nothing but a nice little spot just outside the confused threads of the big city. Yet, it undoubtedly strikes the imagination of the modern literary traveller searching for evocative paths, for this smart town is deeply steeped in eighteenth century literary memories and full of that unexcelled, refined spirit of the Augustan Age which still emanates from the remains of ancient rural England.
Posted on Mon, Apr 03, 2006
The Persuasive And Provincial Jane Austen
Author: Jane Austen
Jane Austen was a provincial lady who wrote about the provincial society she knew so well. Yet in spite of her curiously restricted life, during which she never married and rarely left the company of her affectionate family, she used sharp wit and irony to expose the snobbery and hypocrisy she witnessed in that society.
Posted on Fri, Nov 01, 2002
William Shakespeare's Globe Theater
A crowd of twentieth century "groundlings" stands in the open yard of the new Globe Theatre in Bankside, London. We've paid five pounds approximately $8.50 to see a performance of The Life of Henry the Fift (Henry V.) In the early 1600s, at the first Globe Theatre Shakespeare's "Wooden O," groundlings (commoners) paid one English penny.
Posted on Wed, Nov 01, 2000
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