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Why do we visit writers' homes?

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Why do people visit writers' homes museums? What does our interest in writers' artefacts say about us? In this short film Nicola Watson Professor of English Literature at The Open University gives a brief summary of some popular artefacts people have visited at writers houses since the phenomenon began..

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Dove Cottage

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Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon

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Bronte Parsonage Museum

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Jane Austen (House in Chawton)

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Charles Dickens Museum

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Virginia Woolf

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Arquà Petrarca Punto di vista di un'aquila

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