Geographs in Literature
| Thu, 8 May 2008 21:26 pangapilot |
Please - I need help to build this gallery: the more readers' minds on the subject the better! Perhaps a long-term project but I hope it's a worthwhile one.... My idea is for a gallery of images whose descriptions link the location with a direct mention of that place in some published work of creative writing. (Or maybe the link is even in the image title.) Already we have posts about Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy (lots on page 2), Dorothy L Sayers and others (see below) BTW I'd rather we didn't include images of houses with Blue Plaques: "John Keats lived here". There is now a place for them in this other gallery. Similarly, please avoid images connected to the author's own life story. I have started with two examples of descriptions I have contributed recently. One relates to Arthur Ransome's book "Secret Water", where the location is fictionalised but it is unquestionably here:  In the book, three children are stranded in the middle of this causeway when they are caught by the rising tide. The other relates to one of the locations celebrated in Robert Macfarlane's excellent book "The Wild Places":  |
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| Fri, 9 May 2008 12:26 Lis Burke |
   The Fair Maid of Perth by Walter Scott. Many locations from this novel are pictured on Geograph, but I'll restrict myself to one more picture: the "Fair Maid's House".  |
| Fri, 9 May 2008 20:42 pangapilot |
Lis Burke Member Thanks very much for being the first contributor (apart from me, of course)! I am still hoping that the images chosen will have a reference to the literary connection included in their description, as the ones have that I've put in - or maybe as a discussion on the square, as here:  Having a reference in the gallery entry is the next best thing. Cheers! |
| Mon, 12 May 2008 23:03 pangapilot |
I have added gridsquare discussions linked to  and  pointing to key locations in Mark Cocker's book on rooks etc. and the Yare valley: "Crow Country" |
| Fri, 16 May 2008 22:29 pangapilot |
I really don't want this to be a solo effort - but here are links to some squares that feature in Roger Deakin's "Waterlog". In each case, I've added a reference in the discussion on the square      |
| Sun, 18 May 2008 20:57 Evelyn |
 One of the models for Fenchurch St Paul in Dorothy L Sayers' (1893-1957) Lord Peter Wimsey detective mystery "The Nine Taylors". |
| Tue, 20 May 2008 00:47 Mr Blue Sky |
These images relate to the minor Victorian novelist and journalist Richard Jefferies   with links within the descriptions |
| Tue, 20 May 2008 16:39 ceridwen |
Nigel Mykura has done a wonderful job documenting locations associated with Thomas Hardy's life and works. Here are just some of them.      |
| Sat, 24 May 2008 17:41 DaveM |
In Jane Austen's Persuasion the party go for a walk along the Cobb at Lyme Regis. It is too windy for the ladies on the upper part and they all go quietly down the steps except Louisa, who must jump down holding Captain Wentworth's hands. She runs up for a second time but falls "...and was taken up lifeless!" (Chapter 12 if you want to know what happens next...) Here we have the Cobb, showing the upper and lower parts; some people taking a hazardous stroll and, perhaps, the fateful steps - the latter image links to more literary details.    In John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman, Sarah spends her free time on the Cobb, staring at the sea, where she meets Charles Smithson. |
| Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:14 pangapilot |
and returning to Arthur Ransome: Swallows and Amazons We didn't mean to go to sea     Secret Water autobiography |
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