Why Rare Book Rooms Are the Best-Kept Secret for Travelers Who Love History
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“And this is Grip, the raven,” my guide said, gesturing toward a stuffed bird encased in ornate glass. “She belonged to Charles Dickens — mischievous in life, stuffed in death, perched above his desk.” She told us that Dickens included Grip as a character in Barnaby Rudge. Edgar Allan Poe read it and thought he […]