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Everyone Loves Rupert Bear! Find!

3 October 2009 Another Find! From our Visit Kent informers! http://www.visitkent.co.uk Rupert Bear was created in Canterbury! You can celebrate him and his literary connections by joining Rupert and his Chums in their very own museum - full of adventure and surprises! Find out about... Read more or Comment

Knole Find!

3 October 2009 Another Find! From our Visit Kent informers! http://www.visitkent.co.uk Knole Knole is set at the heart of a 1000 acre deer park, the only remaining medieval deer park in Kent, where Sika & Fallow deer roam freely amongst ancient oak, beech... Read more or Comment (1 comments)

On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 4 Find!

3 October 2009 On the write tracks in literary Kent Fire your imagination Day Four If you're feeling romantic head for Penshurst Place, Penshurst, one-time home of Sir Philip Sidney the charismatic Elizabethan courtier and poet. Mortally wounded in battle, he selflessly... Read more or Comment

On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 3 Find!

3 October 2009 On the write tracks in literary Kent Fire your imagination Come and be inspired - like so many great writers - by Kent's idyllic rural landscapes, captivating cities, castles and gardens. Day Three This morning share the elegant surrounds... Read more or Comment

On the write tracks in literary Kent - Day 2 Find!

3 October 2009 On the write tracks in literary Kent Fire your imagination Come and be inspired - like so many great writers - by Kent's idyllic rural landscapes, captivating cities, castles and gardens. Day Two Today take a tip from Geoffrey... Read more or Comment

On the write tracks in literary Kent Day 1 Find!

3 October 2009 On the write tracks in literary Kent Fire your imagination Come and be inspired - like so many great writers - by Kent's idyllic rural landscapes, captivating cities, castles and gardens. Day One Start you literary tour with Charles... Read more or Comment (1 comments)

On the write tracks in literary Kent Find!

3 October 2009 Hi Folks, I have been sent by our informers at Vist Kent a 4 day Kent Literary Tour. Which you can access by logging on to the Visit Kent website http://www.visitkent.co.uk/ or by following my next 4 blogs! It... Read more or Comment

A Special Thank You to Viscount De L'Isle

3 October 2009 The Kent Reading Detective Team would like to say a special Thank You to Viscount De L'Isle, owner of Penshurst Place, for allowing us to use the beautiful Penshurst Place and Gardens for the Finale venue of the Kent Reading... Read more or Comment

Penshurst Place and Gardens Kent Finale!

3 October 2009 The finale of the Kent Reading Detectives will be at the fantastic Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com. Where we will be given a fantastic house tour and lecture on Penshurt's Literary connections. Penshurst Place has been acting as one our informers... Read more or Comment

Male Georgian/Regency authors Find!

22 September 2009 Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. Male Georgian/Regency authors whose writings are... Read more or Comment

Bluestocking writers Find!

22 September 2009 Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. "Bluestocking" writers with strong Kent connections:... Read more or Comment

Vicesimus Knox

22 September 2009 Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. Vicesimus Knox: A headmaster of Tonbridge... Read more or Comment (1 comments)

The Knatchbull/ Knatchbull-Hugesson family

22 September 2009 Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. The Knatchbull/ Knatchbull-Hugesson family- There is... Read more or Comment (3 comments)

Anne Lefroy- Friend & Mentor to Jane Austen

22 September 2009 Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. Anne Lefroy nee Brydges- friend &... Read more or Comment

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

22 September 2009 Hi Reading Detectives, Another Kent Find sent in by Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com/ The following is an excerpt from the author Margaret Wilson about the Penshurst literary connections to Kent. Another writer who had personal experience... Read more or Comment

Humphrey Davy - Scientific Experiments and Poetry?

22 September 2009 Hi Reading Detectives, Another Kent Find sent in by Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com/ The following is an excerpt from the author Margaret Wilson about the Penshurst literary connections to Kent. A rather surprising poem in 1811 was... Read more or Comment (1 comments)

Charlotte Smith and Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges - Sonnets

22 September 2009 Hi Reading Detectives, Another Kent Find sent in by Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com/ The following is an excerpt from the author Margaret Wilson about the Penshurst literary connections to Kent. In the late 18th century Charlotte Smith, the... Read more or Comment

Sir Philip Sidney - Penshurst and Poetry

22 September 2009 Hi Reading Detectives, Another Kent Find! Sent in by Penshurst Place and Gardens http://www.penshurstplace.com/ The following is an excerpt from the author Margaret Wilson about the Penshurst literary connections to Kent. William Cowper in 'The Task' (1785) mentions... Read more or Comment

Penshurst and Poetry

22 September 2009 I have been contacted by Penshurst Place and Gardens about the fantastic literary connections they have to Kent http://www.penshurstplace.com/ . The following is an excerpt of what I was emailed and is by the author Margaret Wilson. Penhurset and poetry Penshurst has always inspired poets. Poems... Read more or Comment

Kent Finale!

22 September 2009 Hi Super Sleuths! We are holding the Kent Reading Detective's Finale on October 6th and we are hoping to have the author Margart Wilson attend let me know if you would like to come along contact me and I can... Read more or Comment (2 comments)

Crackers for Christmas

22 September 2009 Yesterday at our Kent Reading Detective's meeting at the Centre for Kentish Studies, team member Rob Illingworth highlighted a find by a relation of Jane Austen. The Right Hon. E.H Knatchbull Hugessen (Lord Brabourne) the book is called 'Crackers for... Read more or Comment

Fanny and Eva's Diaries

22 September 2009 While we visited the Centre for Kentish Studies yesterday we were able to look at Fanny Knight and Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen's diaries. This gave us a fantastic insight into their daily lives and the times they lived in. Some entries like the... Read more or Comment (3 comments)

S. M Andrews

22 September 2009 Here is another Find! we found at the Centre for Kentish Studies at our Reading Detective meeting yesterday! 'Jane Austen some aspects of her work together with Tonbridge connections' by S. M Andrews more great information on Jane's connections to... Read more or Comment (3 comments)

A Kent Girl-Graduate

22 September 2009 Another one of Tonbridge author Margaret Wilson's books this one is about the life of Eva Knatchbull-Hugessen the great-great niece of Jane Austen.... Read more or Comment

Almost another Sister

22 September 2009 'Almost another Sister' is by Margaret Wilson who is a Tonbridge resident and the book celebrates Jane Austen and her relationship with her niece Fanny. We hope to invite her to our Kent Reading Detectives Finale to find out her inspiration... Read more or Comment (3 comments)

Margaret Wilson

22 September 2009 Margaret Wilson is local to Tonbridge and wrote 'Jane Austen's Family and Tonbridge' which is fantastically written. We hope to invite her to our Kent Reading Detectives Finale to find out her inspiration and her writers journey.... Read more or Comment (38 comments)

The Portrait of Jane Austen

22 September 2009 This is one of our finds from our visit to the Centre for Kentish Studies - Which is such an amazing place! 'The Rice Portrait of Jane Austen' by Richard James Wheeler. We had the author's son visit our first... Read more or Comment

Jane Austen letters to Fanny Knight!

22 September 2009 Dear Reading Detectives, We had the most fantastic Reading Detective meeting yesterday, we had the opportunity to see the letters that the Centre for Kentish Studies holds from Jane Austen to her favourite niece Fanny Knight. Allison Cresswell and Rob Illingworth... Read more or Comment

Marcus Crouch

22 September 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! He also points us in the direction of where to get clues. Happy Reading! ... Read more or Comment

Printing Press

22 September 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Robert Pocock (1760 - 1830) First history of... Read more or Comment (2 comments)

Local Historians

22 September 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Many local historians with published works - in... Read more or Comment

Shipping on the Thames

22 September 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Frank C Bowen - died c 1959. Lived... Read more or Comment

Billy Bunter and The Magnet Comic!

22 September 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Frank Richards (1876 - 1961): a massive writer... Read more or Comment (1 comments)

Michael Baldwin

22 September 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Local Author Michael Baldwin some of his... Read more or Comment (2 comments)

Kentish Crime Writer

22 September 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Michael Gilbert - crime writer who lived... Read more or Comment

Ghost Story....

22 September 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had an email from one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! I like the sound of this one! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Montague Rhodes... Read more or Comment

Kent Finds!

22 September 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had a email one of our supporters Chris Bull who has given us a fantastic Find! Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Alex John Philip (1879 - 1955) - Borough Librarian at Gravesend 1903-1946, he... Read more or Comment

Kent Clues!

22 September 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had a email of Kentish 'Clues' from Chris Bull who has given us some fantastic Finds of Kentish Authors. Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, Ron Hull - Northfleet poet, 3... Read more or Comment

Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection Find!

27 August 2009 Hi Super Sleuths, Here is a FIND! Regency and Georgian Literature with a Kent Connection which Rob Illingworth has dug up. They tie in nicely with our Jane Austen heritage link. Sir (Samuel) Egerton Brydges- S.E. Brydges bought & rebuilt... Read more or Comment

Jane Austen and Godmersham by The Rev. S. Graham Brade-Birks Find!

27 August 2009 Hi Folks, A Find! I'm currently reading a little slip of a book which is a little gem of information on Jane Austen and her connections to Godmersham in Kent. The information that is in the 13 pages of the... Read more or Comment (1 comments)

Kent Clues! Find!

20 August 2009 Hello Kent Reading Detectives, I have had a email of Kentish 'Clues' from Chris Bull who has given us some fantastic suggestions for Kentish Authors we might like to look at. Happy Reading! Dear Michelle, ... Read more or Comment (1 comments)

First Meeting for Kent

13 August 2009 Hi Folks,We had our first Reading Detective meeting at Tonbridge Library yesterday. The team has an impressive range of interests and a great age span with a wide knowledge about all sorts of literary heritage and tastes which was great!... Read more or Comment (4 comments)

Jane Austen Heritage Link

30 July 2009 Hi Folks, The Kent Reading Detectives will be investigating a Jane Austen Heritage Link to celebrate her family connections to Tonbridge and Kent. Feel free to come along to join our team of super sleuths!... Read more or Comment (8 comments)

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