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Without wanting to sound too like Stopford Brooke in 1889, it would be so wasteful to see such an important part of #LakeDistrict literary history lost to the public. Time for a C21st campaign like the C19th one our co-captain @pollyrowena.bsky.social researched: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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Ghosting Grasmere: the Musealisation of Dove Cottage
In the summer of 1889, Stopford Augustus Brooke — Queen Victoria’s chaplain, dedicated Wordsworthian, critic and poet — went on holiday to Grasmere with his brother. Whilst there the...