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IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND / CHESHIRE’S LANDSCAPES
HUMAN LANDSCAPES / CHESHIRE – Good for body and soul
Good for body and soul? Maybe we can help you to plan you the perfect, short and original break in Cheshire, http://www.chestertourist.com/tour1st.htm but choosing with other people’s eyes inside this mainly rural county, Cheshire, that has a high concentration of villages, as Runcorn (an industrial town and cargo port, located within the Borough of Halton), Daresbury (the birthplace of Alice’s …
Read More »LOVERS OF LITERATURE AND MRS GASKELL – The Life of Charlotte Brontë, novel by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Her house on Plymouth Grove remained in the Gaskell family until 1913. http://www.elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/ In 2004 it was acquired by the Manchester Historic Buildings Trust, and its exterior renovations were completed in 2011. Now Elisabeth waiting for you, because the house is open to the public. She was encouraged by her father in her studies and writing, and her aunts gave …
Read More »ITS PEN NAME WAS LEWIS CARROLL – Charles L. Dodgson: write and create games, as a child
He, the young adult Charles, had curly brown hair and blue or grey eyes, was about 1.83 m tall and slender.Throughout his life, he would suffer strange attacks of memory (this sounds like the writer may have suffered from epilepsy). From a young age, he wrote poetry and short stories. He, the Victorian author Lewis Carroll was born in, 1832, …
Read More »MARC STOCK (1951/2014), AMERICAN PAINTER – Stylish women in slinky gowns and white-gloved butlers
FREDERICK LEIGHTON (1830/1896), ENGLISH PAINTER – Painting solidly drawn figures with luminous colours
ALFRED STEVENS (1823/1906), BELGIAN PAINTER – The immensely successful painter, known for his paintings of elegant modern women
SWISS INNER LANDSCAPES
POETRY FROM SWITZERLAND
OUR LIVES ARE SWISS – Poem by Emily Dickinson So still, so cool. Till some odd afternoon the Alps neglect their curtains and we look farther on! Italy stands the other side! While like a guard – between the solemn Alps – the siren Alps forever intervene!                                              PHONE WEATHER – Poem by Ilene Bauer Your phone will inform you …
Read More »READING SWISS NOVELS – The promise, crime novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Friedrich Dürrenmatt was a Swiss author and dramatist. He was born in Konolfingen, and his family moved to Bern in 1935. He began studies in philosophy (German language and literature), at the University of Zurich, In 1943, he decided to become an author and dramatist, and dropped his academic career. His technique, was influenced by Bertolt Brecht, as in the …
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