Hi there everyone! I thought some of you might enjoy reading a blog post I wrote for a travel site on 9 Essential Stops For a Literary Tour Through the UK.
Of course the Globe Theater (or its reconstruction at any rate) is featured :) .
Enjoy! http://www.stridetravel.com/blogs/9-essential-stops-for-a-literary-tour-through-the-uk.html
Nice link, Compulsive, but it's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, please; and Oxford is a University, containing many Colleges. Sorry to nit-pick, but you might as well get it right as not. I hope many visitors will enjoy your recommendations.
shareAnd Haddon Hall was home to at least two Jane Eyre shoots (2006 and 2011) and did manage to appear fleetingly as the inn in P&P 2005 but Darcy's home in the famous recent adaptations was Lyme Park in 1995, and the much grander Chatsworth in 2005.
shareHi, thanks for reading the post! Great call on Haddon Hall - I actually wrote another article where it was included: http://www.stridetravel.com/blogs/location-scouting-movie-sites-around-the-world.html . :) Enjoy!
I always thought it was rather silly, using Chatsworth as Pemberley. It's so instantly recognisable, I shouldn't think anyone watching the series could have failed to say, oh look, that's Chatsworth! And Darcy, wealthy man though he may be, is just a Mister, he's hardly likely to have been the owner of such a ducal pile. It's not like there's any shortage of more modest mansions to choose from.
This is good fun, let's do some more. The various big houses used in the Granada TV Sherlock Holmes series (with Jeremy Brett as Holmes) were amusing - because Granada's based in Manchester, all the gentlemen's residences featured in the stories and supposed to be in the home counties are so obviously northern and made of red northern brick!
Hi there! Thanks for reading, I'm glad you like the article :) . And thanks for the edits! Point of clarification - "theater" is the American spelling, so is it technically incorrect? I honestly don't know in this instance! Always happy to learn a new grammar rule, and happy to change based on your note, just wondering :) .
And I will definitely change the word College to University. Is there an "Oxford College" within Oxford University? In The Golden Compass I believe Philip Pullman uses the term Oxford College to describe where Lyra lives - which is what I was thinking of. Been a while since I read it so I could be wrong, but it stuck in my brain and I didn't think to fact check :) .
The correct caption for your picture is "Tom Quad, Christchurch College, Oxford".
Quad is quadrangle and Oxford University is a federation of 38 colleges of which Christchurch is the largest. When you identify a college, you omit the word 'university'.
If you've been to Oxford you omit everything except the college name and expect whoever you are talking to will be able to supply the rest.
Snobby, eh?
No, there's no 'Oxford College', although you might speak of Balliol or Magdalen or Christ Church as being 'an Oxford College', that is, a College within the University. See Alfa's reply for more detail.
In Northern Lights (The Golden Compass on your side of the pond, for some strange reason), Lyra's College is Jordan, which doesn't exist in our reality - she is distressed to discover this when she visits our Oxford with Will Parry in The Subtle Knife.
As to the Globe, since it is here in London I would say that the English spelling, Theatre, is correct. 'Shakespeare's Globe Theatre' is its official name, though of course we all just speak of going to the Globe.
Yes, I think you're right about the spelling. If the official name is Theatre, it should be spelled that way across the board. Changed!
And thank you for the clarification on Oxford. I could have sworn that in The Golden Compass (yes I have no idea why a different name...Harry Potter did the same thing), there was a chapter called "Lyra's Oxford" or something to that effect. I had completely forgotten about Will explaining that there is no Jordan in his reality. Need to refresh my memory with another read! Oh darn ;)
Lyra's Oxford is a separate small book by Philip Pullman, containing a short story, plus a map and visitor's guide to the Oxford of Lyra's world - the whole of the city of Oxford, that is, not just the university.
shareAnd one of the colleges is 'University College', which sounds as though it had a special status above all the other colleges, but it hasn't.
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