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| Jane Austen |
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1817
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One of England’s most famous writers, much of her inspiration came from visiting and taking holidays in the South West. Her first novel, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ was set around Upton Pyne, about 4 miles from Exeter. The novel was turned into a film in 1995 and filming took...
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| John Hawley |
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An ex Mayor of Dartmouth and a flamboyant local shipmaster who built the 14th Century Dartmouth Castle to guard the mouth of the River Dart. Hawley is believed to be the inspiration for Chaucer’s character of the Shipmaster in “The Canterbury Tales”.
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| Kenneth Grahame |
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1859
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1932
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Kenneth Grahame first came to Fowey in 1899, staying at the Fowey Hotel whilst convalescing from pneumonia. He then became a frequent visitor and it is without a doubt that his famous tale, “The Wind in the Willows”, of four great animal friends and their adventure along the riverbank,...
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| Percy Shelley |
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1792
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1822
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A romantic poet, passionate by nature, during his stay in Lynmouth Shelley was inspired by the wild beauty of the region; Lynmouth, Lynton and the Valley of the Rocks. Whilst in Lynmouth, Shelley wrote political pamphlets, put them in bottles and dropped them into the Bristol Channel. When...
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