THE favor with which a few articles in the periodical press, similar to those herewith presented, have been received induces the hope that the present volume may prove acceptable. If some popular literary shrines which are inevitably included in the writer's personal itinerary are herein accorded but scant notice, it is for the reason that they have been already so oft described that portrayal of them is therefore purposely omitted from this account of a literary pilgrimage: even Stratford-on-Avon here for once escapes description. However, the initial paragraphs of these chapters lightly outline a series of literary rambles which the writer has found measurably complete and consecutive. The pilgrim is understood to make his start from London.
If these notes of his sojourns in the scenes hallowed by the presence of British authors or embalmed in their books shall prove pleasantly reminiscent to some who have fared to the same shrines, or helpfully suggestive to others who contemplate such pilgrimage, then
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"not in vain He wore his sandal shoon and scallop-shell." |
The writer is indebted to the publishers of the Home Journal for permission to reproduce one or two articles which have appeared in that periodical.
T. F. W.
CONTENTS
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| Literary Hampstead and Highgate. | |
| Haunt of Dickens—Steele—Pope—Keats—Baillie—Johnson—Hunt—Akenside—Shelley—Hogarth—Addison—Richardson—Gay—Besant—DuMaurier—Coleridge, etc.—Graveof George Eliot | [13] |
| By Southwark and Thames-Side to Chelsea. | |
| Chaucer—Shakespeare—Dickens—Walpole—Pepys—Eliot—Rossetti—Carlyle—Hunt—Gay—Smollett—Kingsley—Herbert—Dorset—Addison—Shaftesbury—Locke—Bolingbroke—Pope—Richardson,etc. | [24] |
| The Scene of Gray's Elegy. | |
| The Country Church-Yard—Tomb of Gray—Stoke-PogisChurch—Reverie and Reminiscence—Scenes of Milton—Waller—Porter—Coke—Denham | [39] |
| Dickensland: Gad's Hill and about. | |
| Chaucer's Pilgrims—Falstaff—Dickens's Abode—Study—Grounds—Walks—Neighbors—Guests—Scenesof Tales—Cobham—Rochester—Pip's Church-Yard—SatisHouse, etc. | [49] |
| Some Haunts of Byron. | |
| Birthplace—London Homes—Murray's Book-Store—KensalGreen—Harrow—Byron's Tomb—His Diadem Hill—Abodeof his Star of Annesley—Portraits—Mementos | [62] |
| The Home of Childe Harold. | |
| Newstead—Byron's Apartments—Relics and Reminders—Ghosts—Ruins—TheYoung Oak—Dog's Tomb—Devil'sWood—Irving—Livingstone—Stanley—JoaquinMiller | [80] |
| Warwickshire: the Loamshire of GeorgeEliot. | |
| Miss Mulock—Butler—Somervile—Dyer—Rugby—Homesof George Eliot—Scenes of Tales—Cheverel—Shepperton—Milly'sGrave—Paddiford—Milby—Coventry,etc.—Characters—Incidents | [91] |
| Yorkshire Shrines: Dotheboys Hall andRokeby. | |
| Village of Bowes—Dickens—Squeers's School—The Masterand his Family—Haunt of Scott | [106] |
| Sterne's Sweet Retirement. | |
| Sutton—Crazy Castle—Yorick's Church—Parsonage—WhereTristram Shandy and the SentimentalJourney were written—Reminiscences—NewburghHall—Where Sterne died—Sepulchre | [111] |
| Haworth and the Brontës. | |
| The Village—Black Bull Inn—Church—Vicarage—Memory-hauntedRooms—Brontë Tomb—Moors—BrontëCascade—Wuthering Heights—Humble Friends—Relicand Recollection | [121] |
| Early Haunts of Robert Collyer: Eugene Aram. | |
| Childhood Home—Ilkley Scenes, Friends, Smithy, Chapel—Bolton—Associations—Wordsworth—Rogers—Eliot—Turner—Aram'sHomes—Schools—Place of theMurder—Gibbet—Probable Innocence | [136] |
| Home of Sydney Smith. | |
| Heslington—Foston, Twelve Miles from a Lemon—Church-Rector'sHead—Study—Room-of-all-work—Grounds—Guests—UniversalScratcher—ImmortalChariot—Reminiscences | [148] |
| Nithsdale Rambles. | |
| Scott—Hogg—Wordsworth—Carlye's Birthplace—Homes—Grave—Burns'sHaunts—Tomb—Jeanie Deans—OldMortality, etc.—Annie Laurie's Birthplace—Habitation—Poet-Lover—Descendants | [161] |
| A Niece of Robert Burns. | |
| Her Burnsland Cottage—Reminiscences of Burns—Relics—Portraits—Letters—Recitations—Accountof hisDeath—Memories of his Home—Of Bonnie Jean—OtherHeroines | [181] |
| Highland Mary: her Homes and Grave. | |
| Birthplace—Personal Appearance—Relations to Burns—Abodes:Mauchline, Coilsfield, etc.—Scenes ofCourtship and Parting—Mementos—Tomb by theClyde | [194] |
| Brontë Scenes in Brussels. | |
| School—Class-Rooms—Dormitory—Garden—Scenes andEvents of Villette and The Professor—M. Paul—MadameBeck—Memories of the Brontës—Confessional—Graveof Jessy Yorke | [207] |
| Leman's Shrines. | |
| Beloved of Littérateurs—Gibbon—D'Aubigné—Rousseau—Byron—Shelley—Dickens,etc.—Scenes of ChildeHarold—Nouvelle Heloïse—Prisoner of Chillon—Landof Byron | [226] |
| Châteaux of Ferney and Coppet. | |
| Voltaire's Home, Church, Study, Garden, Relics—LiteraryCourt of de Staël—Mementos—Famous Rooms,Guests—Schlegel—Shelley—Constant—Byron—Davy,etc.—De Staël's Tomb | [238] |