tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post6479517734768002822..comments2024-03-29T07:01:21.278-04:00Comments on Writers Who Kill: A Visit to the Jane Austen CentreJim Jacksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-35407602428669736222017-01-02T19:18:53.113-05:002017-01-02T19:18:53.113-05:00Shari, I've been to Bath also, but I didn'...Shari, I've been to Bath also, but I didn't see the Jane Austin museum. I love her books.<br />I've visited Emily Dickinson's home, Ralph Waldo Emerson's home, Louisa May Alcott's home, the replica of Henry David Thoreau's house he built on Walden's Pond, Hawthorn's house, Jefferson's Monticello, Edith Wharton's home, and probably others I've forgotten about right now. Whoops! I forgot William Shakespeare's home, and a poet's home in the Lake District of England, whose name I'm forgetting right now. I loved your pictures and hope I can return to the British Isles someday soon.Gloria Aldenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581719606924364447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-10772609867248253472017-01-02T17:52:56.749-05:002017-01-02T17:52:56.749-05:00Hi Grace, Wasn't it wonderful to see where she...Hi Grace, Wasn't it wonderful to see where she lived (if even for a short time). Your trip to Tahiti sounds wonderful - I hope you'll write about it and share pics.<br /><br />Hi Kait, Spellcheck! How I love to hate it! I wish I had thought to ask more Jane's publishing history. I got the impression that the publication happened because her brother brought her novels to the attention of the publisher and that she, as a woman, could never have transacted that kind of business. But I'm guessing.<br />How cool that you got an inside view of the Williams house! Doesn't it bring them to life?Shari Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425493627354028820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-64707100270357665322017-01-02T17:49:36.285-05:002017-01-02T17:49:36.285-05:00Hi Kathleen, I, too, was dragged to the Churchill ...Hi Kathleen, I, too, was dragged to the Churchill War Rooms and Greenwich (Cutty Sark) and despite my reluctance, enjoyed them! Still, I'm glad I got to see Jane's place.<br /><br />Hi Margaret, You, Kathleen and I should plan a trip to Savannah! I love Flannery O'Connor.<br /><br />Hi Elaine, Thanks! Funny all the places we saw when we were young and can't remember. I dragged my kids through Paris when they were young and their favorite memory was buying Nutella crepes from a street vendor.<br /><br />Hi Carla, I guess ladies were not supposed to do something as public as writing a book? I wish I had thought to ask the interpreter more about that.<br /><br />Shari Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425493627354028820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-38691285519008839762017-01-02T17:45:27.009-05:002017-01-02T17:45:27.009-05:00Hi Paula, I think I'm going to make a bucket l...Hi Paula, I think I'm going to make a bucket list of authors' houses to visit. I know folks who visited every major league baseball stadium, every President's home....A fun list to pursue. Hadn't thought of Jefferson as an author. Monticello is impressive, isn't it?<br /><br />Hi Jim, Your point is excellent - walking in the footsteps of an author, seeing the sights they would have seen (mostly, making allowances for the passage of time) brought Jane alive for me. <br />Wasn't the House of the Seven Gables grand? I saw that when I was a little girl and it made a big impression on me.<br /><br />Shari Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425493627354028820noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-70184198713542952412017-01-02T16:30:10.205-05:002017-01-02T16:30:10.205-05:00Hum, never visited the Bronte house, but my spell ...Hum, never visited the Bronte house, but my spell check must have. That should be Bronson Alcott house!Kaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07758348842858993203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-972241572631019642017-01-02T16:27:31.618-05:002017-01-02T16:27:31.618-05:00This is lovely, and the pictures-fantastic. It'...This is lovely, and the pictures-fantastic. It's so hard to believe that we know so little of Austen or that her name was not associated with her work during her lifetime. Was that part of the old stricture of a lady's name appearing in print only twice, once at her debut and again at her marriage? Or was it due to Jane's insecurity in her writing? I wonder, did her publisher know who she was?<br /><br />I have visited the Bronte house, taken by my parents to see the residence, and I confess, I remember nothing. All of my "memories" of the house are based on my reading of Little Women. I also visited William Carlos Williams' house in Rutherford NJ. Actually, I was there as a patient of his son. His son was covering when my regular doctor was on vacation, and because we were not regulars, he asked if we would like to see the house. My mother was thrilled. The only room that was left untouched (the son and his family lived there) was the study. It was filled with dark wood and books.Kaithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07758348842858993203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-34875609191367557412017-01-02T15:02:15.262-05:002017-01-02T15:02:15.262-05:00Life would be so boring without a Jane Austen book...Life would be so boring without a Jane Austen book to turn to. My husband I visited Bath two years ago and followed Jane's trail throughout the city. I can see how the place inspired some of her books.<br /><br />I once got to visit James Norman Hall's home in Tahiti. He wrote "Mutiny on the Bounty." It was a terrific experience seeing where he wrote the book in such a tropical setting--not too different from the island of Pitcairn where the mutineers ended up. Grace Toppinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10291304815273486038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-91875247766038535892017-01-02T13:32:21.233-05:002017-01-02T13:32:21.233-05:00I didn't realize her name wasn't used unti...I didn't realize her name wasn't used until after her death. Thanks for taking us on this trip!carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15985823239660829148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-91545834733716234772017-01-02T09:58:58.465-05:002017-01-02T09:58:58.465-05:00I visited Bath when I was a teenager, but we didn&...I visited Bath when I was a teenager, but we didn't explore Jane's house. I haven't visited any other author's house, but your trip sounds fantastic, Shari. Glad you made the trip and enjoyed it.E. B. Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16746747050278597888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-15530633953645727522017-01-02T08:05:31.168-05:002017-01-02T08:05:31.168-05:00I loved visiting Bath...the Abbey, the Baths, Asse...I loved visiting Bath...the Abbey, the Baths, Assembly Rooms, Crescent. We didn't visit Jane's house during our packed day-trip so I assume it was closed. <br /><br />We visited Monticello but I can't think of anything else. Twain's house in Hartford and Flannery O'Connor's farm outside Milledgeville are on my bucket list as well as the Concord sites.Margaret S. Hamiltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07979191318652199350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-81178316273239439582017-01-02T07:55:21.339-05:002017-01-02T07:55:21.339-05:00What a fun trip! I'll have to put it on the ag...What a fun trip! I'll have to put it on the agenda for my next trip to England, although my husband and his friend, who lives in London, are military history buffs, and mostly we visit places like Churchill's underground bunker and the HMS Victory.<br /><br />I've been to the New England sites Jim mentions, but Flannery O'Connor is an old favorite, so I'll have to put that on my bucket list.KM Rockwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03973749764907859829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-66835891390886123552017-01-02T06:26:26.539-05:002017-01-02T06:26:26.539-05:00It’s fun to visit authors' homes and in some c...It’s fun to visit authors' homes and in some cases see existing the same general environment that they wrote about. Walking the land Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote about in Anne of Green Gables or touring Hawthorne’s House of the Seven Gables in Salem, MA, or visiting Concord where Hawthorne lived at the time, as did Louisa May Alcott of <i>Little Women</i> fame, not to mention Emerson and Thoreau. In Savannah we have Flannery O’Connnor’s residence.<br /><br />It all fits with my general feeling that to understand a place you have to walk it.<br /><br />~ Jim<br />Jim Jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15090252530437277145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-993649290245605005.post-47131762739597545112017-01-02T06:24:33.593-05:002017-01-02T06:24:33.593-05:00Shari, thank you so much for sharing your wonderfu...Shari, thank you so much for sharing your wonderful visit. The one famous author whose home I've visited is Thomas Jefferson. Maybe it will be a good new year's resolution to add some fiction authors' homes to my list!Paula Gail Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08843350597811462936noreply@blogger.com