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Here is a list of books and guides intended
to provide suggestions for informative and
pleasurable reading. It is offered in the conviction
that a considerable part of a trip's enjoyment
begins before leaving home. Your local library
and book store may have these and other books
of interest about the Lake District.
Among those books to be recommended are the
following:
- William
Wordsworth of Dove Cottage by Frederika Beatty; Bookman, 1985
- William
Wordsworth of Rydal Mount by
Frederika Beatty; 1989 reprint
- Highways
and Byways in the Lake District by A. C. Bradley; St Mut., 1985
- Land
of the Lakes by Melvyn Bragg;
Trafalgar, 1991
- The
Lake Counties by W. G. Collingwood;
pub. Dent
- A
Walk Around the Lakes by Hunter Davies
- Beatrix
Potter’s
Lakeland by Hunter Davies; Warne, 1989
- Recollections
of the Lakes and the Lake Poets by Thomas De Quincey, 1971
- The
Remarkable Beatrix Potter by Alexander
Grinstein; Intl. Univ. Pr., 1994
- Beatrix
Potter’s
Art by Anne S. Hobbs; Warne, 1990
- A
Passionate Sisterhood (the sisters,
wives and daughters of the Lakes Poets),
by Kathleen Jones; pub. Virago
- The
Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography by Margaret Lane, 1985
- A
Literary Guide to the Lake District by Grevel Lindop; pub. Chatto and Windus
- Lakeland,
a Prose Anthology by Norman
Nicholson; pub. Robert Hale
- Wordsworth
in England by Katherine
Peek; Hippocrene Books, 1969
- A
History of Man in the Lake District by William Rollinson; pub. Dent
- The
Grasmere Journal by Dorothy Wordsworth
(edited by Pamela Woof); Oxford University
Press, 1993
- Dorothy
Wordsworth’s
Illustrated Lakeland Journals by Dorothy
Wordsworth; Collins, 1987
- Guide
Through the District of the Lakes in the
North of England, with a Description of
the Scenery for the Use of Tourists and
Residents by William Wordsworth; Greenwood,
1969 reprint of 1952 edition
Guides
- Lake
District; Ordnance Survey Leisure Guide
Series; Hunter NJ, 1992
- Lake
District; Ordnance Survey Pathfinder Guides
Series; Seven Hills Book Dist.,
1993
- Lake
District; Visitor’s
Guide Series, 2nd ed.; Hunter NJ, 1993
Fiction
- The
Plague Dogs by Richard Adams; Penguin
Books
- Maid
of Buttermere by Melvyn Bragg;
Trafalgar. Also by Bragg; A
Time to Dance,
For Want of a Nail, Without
a City Wall,
and Josh Lawton
- Tale
of Mrs. Tiggywinkle, Tale of Squirrel Nutkin,
and others by Beatrix Potter; Warne
- Swallows
and Amazons, Swallowdale,
Pigeon Post, and Winter
Holiday by Arthur
Ransome; Godine
Note: This list was kindly compiled by Marion
Simplicio, a professional librarian, whose
delightful companionship we have all enjoyed
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