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(cross-posted at Literary Compass)

The English Department at San Jose State University has created Literary Locales, a web site that links to over 1,000 pictures of “places that figure in the lives and writings of famous authors.” It could be organized more effectively, and some of the links are broken, but there are some great images indexed there. It’s a terrific site for those studying or teaching literature.

Take a look at some of the destinations:

• From one of their Shakespeare pages:
  • Shakespeare’s Globe
  • Hamlet’s Elsinore
  • The forest of Arden, from As You Like It

• Various other links:
  • The inspiration for Charles Perrault’s “Sleeping Beauty” castle
  • Samuel Johnson’s House
  • Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey

There are hundreds of links, and you could spend hours virtually visiting these literary locations.

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