Literary Landmarks

A tumblr appreciating the many memorable places found throughout literature, film, and pop culture. Feel free to submit your own posts!

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requests?

Hi followers! It's been a long time since I've last updated this blog, but I'm going to make an effort to revive it. Are there any requests you have for regions/time periods you'd like featured? (like south american writers, japanese writers, parisian writers from the 1920s, etc)

Leave a comment here or send me a message!

-Priya

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Mark Twain’s House, Hartford, CT

Photo by Frank C. Grace (Trig Photography)

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Wow, this is beautiful!

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wrecktangled: Plaque on the Anderson Memorial Bridge over the Charles River in MA dedicated to Quentin Compson from The Sound and the Fury.

"QUENTIN COMPSON Drowned in the odour of honeysuckle. 1891-1910"

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Café Tortoni, a coffeehouse in Buenos Aires, Argentina located at Avenida de Mayo 825. It was opened in 1858 by a French immigrant and named Tortoni after a Parisian cafe with the same name. Its decor was inspired by fin de siecle cafes and has been named one of the most beautiful cafes in the world. It was a popular haunt for Jorge Luis Borges and has been visited by Frederico Garcia Lorca as well. 

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Wilde's House, Chelsea by avrenim_acceber on Flickr.

34 Tite Street, Oscar Wilde's family home in Chelsea, London from 1884 until his arrest in 1895. When Wilde lived here, it was No. 16- the houses have since been renumbered.

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Dr Johnson's House - 17 Gough Square, City of London by ell brown on Flickr.

The home of Dr. Samuel Johnson. Johnson lived and worked here from 1748 to 1759, paying £30 for rent. It is also where he wrote A Dictionary of the English Language. The house currently features exhibitions about Johnson's life and work and a collection of period furniture, prints and portraits. It featured prominently in the 1946 Sherlock Holmes film Dressed to Kill. Dr. Samuel Johnson's house is open Monday through Saturday 11am- 5pm from October to April and Monday through Saturday 11am - 5.30pm from May to September. It is closed on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

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“[H]is mind went back to the first few years after the war and to a crumbling block of Bethune Street, in that part of New York where the gentle western edge of the VIllage flakes off into silent waterfront warehouses, where the salt breeze of evening and the deep river horns of night enrich the air with a promise of voyages.”

Bethune Street in Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road, one pin on the New York Times Book Review’s Literary Map of New York.

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Super cool!!

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Ernest Hemingway birthplace home (built 1890), 339 N. Oak Park Avenue, Oak Park, IL by lumierefl on Flickr.

The Ernest Hemingway Birthplace and Museum is open Sunday through Friday from 1pm-5pm and on Saturday from 10am-5pm. 

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Hungry for a literary snack? Why not stroll down to the Bourgeois Pig Cafe in Chicago? Easily accessibly by both car and public transportation from the Fullerton El Stop, the Bourgeois Pig Cafe offers delicious sandwiches named after great works of literature ranging from Shakespeare to Walt Whitman. Signature sandwiches include The Great Gatsby and The Sun Also Rises, which was named one of the "Top 104 Dishes in the City" by Chicago Magazine in Nov. 2007.

738 W Fullerton Ave

Chicago, IL 60614

773-883-5282

Photos courtesy of the Bourgeois Pig.

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Herman Melville in Albany by Literary Tourist on Flickr.

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Frederick Douglass House - FOLUSA's Newest Literary Landmark by RoccoA on Flickr.

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Dinah Fried’s photo series, Fictitious Dishes, depicts the meals from various novels. A pretty cool idea, don’t you think? I would love to see one of To Kill a Mocking Bird, Jane Eyre, or Main Street.

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Childhood Homes of Famous Authors

Flannery O’Connor’s childhood home in Savannah, Georgia

Hans Christian Andersen’s childhood home in Odense on Fyn in Denmark

Sylvia Plath’s birthplace in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s birthplace in St. Paul, Minnesota

Tennessee Williams’ childhood home in Columbus, Mississippi

Jack Kerouac’s Birthplace in Lowell, Massachusetts

Mark Twain’s boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri

Franz Kafka’s childhood home in Prague.

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The Streets of San Francisco

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Have you ever poured syrup in the snow to make candy?  Did you ever wish you had a light blue calling card?  Have you ever contemplated ”Manly” as a boyfriend nickname?  If so, I have a book suggestion for you: The Wilder Life by Wendy McClure.

The Wilder Life follows BUST columnist and Little House fanatic Wendy McClure as she visits the sites from Laura’s life.  It is equal parts fandom memoir and travelogue, a project book with the author revisiting Laura’s life through visits to the homesteads and pioneer activities.  Reading The Wilder Life inspired me to reread several of the original books, noticing things that I’d skipped over as a child.

While I enjoyed the book, I think those who were children in the 70s might enjoy it a bit more as the author was also a child during the 70s Laura revival.  I actually saw the TV show in reruns before I read the books, so my perspective is a bit different.  

Wendy McClure has events in the next two weeks in Austin, the Bay Area, Seattle, Portland, and Illinois.  She has also written a short ebook of further pioneer life observations.

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Hey literary travelers! Check out this book :)

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200!

oh my gosh, there are 200 of you and I haven't even posted in ages! I promise I will try to start posting more often again soon- I just need to restructure and figure out how I'm going to go about doing it (I imagine it'll involve some major research), but there will be more fun posts soon for sure! :)