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#WanderlustWednesday This lovely edifice is Sir Walter Scott's castle in Scotland's Border Country. It's an impressive sight with an equally intriguing interior, although one cranky literary traveler was underwhelmed. "It is but a villa, after all; no castle, nor even a large manor-house, and very unsatisfactory when you consider it in that light," Nathaniel Hawthorne petulantly penned in his PASSAGES FROM THE ENGLISH NOTEBOOKS. Seriously? He did like aspects of the castle's interior, though, including the weapons room where Rob Roy's sword is on display, and the cozy study, where a servant invited him to sit in Scott's writing chair do that he might "catch some inspiration." ... @abbotsfordscott #noveldestinations #literarytravel #scotland #latergram These are two of my favorite novels featuring classic writers as characters -- and in which some of the action takes place at #literarylandmarks. ... HEMINGWAY'S GIRL by Erika Robuck is set in Depression-era Key West, when Hemingway was in residence on the island. The vividly atmospheric story follows Mariella Bennett, a young woman struggling to support her family after her father's death. She is hired as a maid in the Hemingway household and becomes drawn into the life of the literary legend. Readers can visit on the page notable locales like Sloppy Joe's, a favored Hemingway saloon; Blue Heaven, a bordello-turned-restaurant where he refereed boxing matches in the courtyard; and his Spanish Colonial-style house, now the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. ... Ann Napolitano's A GOOD HARD LOOK is as darkly fascinating as Flannery O'Connor's own fiction. At Andalusia, her mother's family farm outside the small town of Milledgeville, Georgia, 37-year-old O'Connor is in her twilight years. Crippled by lupus, she spends her time writing and tending to a menagerie of peacocks. When she meets an enigmatic newcomer to Milledgeville, the two strike up a friendship that has unexpectedly tragic consequences. ... What are some of your favorite "novel destinations"? ... #noveldestinations #literarytravel #travelonthepage #greatstorytelling #agoodhardlook #annnapolitano #hemingwaysgirl #erikarobuck @erobuckauthor @andalusiafarm #flanneryoconnor #ernesthemingway @hemingwayhomegarden @hemingwayhomecats

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