Wordsworth and his brother were walking in the English Lakes in late 1799 with fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge when they came upon the modest Dove …
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6 Weeks in the English Lakes #4: Beatrix Potter on England's Fells
"The fells are never twice alike." – Beatrix Potter, from a February 28, 1938 letter to Josephine Banner One of the loveliest ways to spend a day - or many …
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6 Weeks in the English Lakes #3: Beatrix Potter's Hill Top Farm
"Some of the walls were four feet thick, and there used to be queer noises inside them, as if there might be a little secret staircase. Certainly there were odd …
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6 Weeks in the English Lakes #2: A Literary Map
If you don't know where the English Lakes are, pull out your trusty map of England and look as far north and west as you can. (Go too far, and you'll end up in …
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