Nicola J. Watson trained at Oxford and held posts at Oxford, Harvard, Northwestern, and Indiana Universities before taking up a position at the Open University. A specialist in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, her research focusses on authorial afterlives and the associated histories of literary tourism, literary commemoration, and the literary museum.

Oxford University Press has produced a handsome illustrated volume that holds much to engage and instruct a literate reader interested in cultural heritage and European and North American literatures ... Watson has an eye for vivid and since-forgotten topics such as the poet Cowper's nightcap, so famous that it became a kind of icon in a poem by Browning, and the theme of headgear leads us to Jo's writing cap in Little Women and Ibsen's top hat on display in Oslo. Watson spins museological gold from the mundane (massively plural) accretions of writerly lives and readerly immersion.

• Introduction 1: Remains: Burns' skull and Keats' hair 2: Bodies: Petrarch's cat and Poe's Raven 3: Clothing: Brontë's bonnet and Dickinson's dress 4: Furniture: Shakespeare's chair and Austen's desk 5: Household Effects: Johnson's coffee-pot and Twain's effigy 6: Glass: Woolf's spectacles and Freud's mirror 7: Outhouses: Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' prison 8: Enchanted Ground: Scott's Abbotsford, Irving's Sunnyside, Shakespeare's New Place 9: Exit through the Gift-shop

Nicola J. Watson trained at Oxford and held posts at Oxford, Harvard, Northwestern, and Indiana Universities before taking up a position at the Open University. A specialist in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, her research focusses on authorial afterlives and the associated histories of literary tourism, literary commemoration, and the literary museum.

Oxford University Press has produced a handsome illustrated volume that holds much to engage and instruct a literate reader interested in cultural heritage and European and North American literatures ... Watson has an eye for vivid and since-forgotten topics such as the poet Cowper's nightcap, so famous that it became a kind of icon in a poem by Browning, and the theme of headgear leads us to Jo's writing cap in Little Women and Ibsen's top hat on display in Oslo. Watson spins museological gold from the mundane (massively plural) accretions of writerly lives and readerly immersion.

• Introduction 1: Remains: Burns' skull and Keats' hair 2: Bodies: Petrarch's cat and Poe's Raven 3: Clothing: Brontë's bonnet and Dickinson's dress 4: Furniture: Shakespeare's chair and Austen's desk 5: Household Effects: Johnson's coffee-pot and Twain's effigy 6: Glass: Woolf's spectacles and Freud's mirror 7: Outhouses: Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' prison 8: Enchanted Ground: Scott's Abbotsford, Irving's Sunnyside, Shakespeare's New Place 9: Exit through the Gift-shop

Nicola J. Watson trained at Oxford and held posts at Oxford, Harvard, Northwestern, and Indiana Universities before taking up a position at the Open University. A specialist in the literature and culture of the Romantic period, her research focusses on authorial afterlives and the associated histories of literary tourism, literary commemoration, and the literary museum.

Oxford University Press has produced a handsome illustrated volume that holds much to engage and instruct a literate reader interested in cultural heritage and European and North American literatures ... Watson has an eye for vivid and since-forgotten topics such as the poet Cowper's nightcap, so famous that it became a kind of icon in a poem by Browning, and the theme of headgear leads us to Jo's writing cap in Little Women and Ibsen's top hat on display in Oslo. Watson spins museological gold from the mundane (massively plural) accretions of writerly lives and readerly immersion.

• Introduction 1: Remains: Burns' skull and Keats' hair 2: Bodies: Petrarch's cat and Poe's Raven 3: Clothing: Brontë's bonnet and Dickinson's dress 4: Furniture: Shakespeare's chair and Austen's desk 5: Household Effects: Johnson's coffee-pot and Twain's effigy 6: Glass: Woolf's spectacles and Freud's mirror 7: Outhouses: Thoreau's cabin and Dumas' prison 8: Enchanted Ground: Scott's Abbotsford, Irving's Sunnyside, Shakespeare's New Place 9: Exit through the Gift-shop