Dec 16, 2009

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare | Irving, Washington

Irving, Washington (1783–1859),
American author. His Sketch Book (1819–20) describes the Stratford Birthplace in 1815 as ‘a small and mean-looking edifice’ and his guide (Mary Hornby) as ‘a garrulous old lady’ exhibiting a collection of bogus relics: limitations long past, and now forever transcended in the Birthplace's millennium refurbishment.

Tom Matheson