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Amy WilcocksonThe Conversation |
Whether courageous and confident or quietly subversive, literary heroines can inspire us in our everyday lives.
Celebrating literary anniversaries centres on many things including cultural connection, nostalgia, pride and a sense of belonging.
Unlike the usual Austen narratives, these two novels are concerned with wider, more serious issues that perhaps puts TV and film-makers off.
It was at Rydal Mount that Wordsworth truly settled, building a ‘writing hut’ and extensively landscaping the grounds to his own design.