Hawthornden

The Hawthornden is a resolute looking fellow, but it indulges in the loveliest pink and white blossoms, and waxen, delicate, peachy fruit. '

The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

The Coll. played "Hawthornden" last week, and when the whistle went for "time" the score was 4-2 in our favor!

The Jolliest School of All Angela Brazil 1907

I wrote the sequel at Hawthornden Castle, an international retreat for writers in Scotland where I was a Fellow I love saying that last January.

Archive 2010-01-01 Shirley Damsgaard 2010

I wrote the sequel at Hawthornden Castle, an international retreat for writers in Scotland where I was a Fellow I love saying that last January.

Welcome Guest, CE Lawrence Casey 2010

Alexander Masters won an Arts Council Writers' Award for this, his first book, and went on to win the Guardian First Book Award and the Hawthornden Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Whitbread Book-of-the-Year Award in 2005 in the biography category, the Samuel Johnson Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States.

Archive 2009-09-20 Toby O'B 2009

Alexander Masters won an Arts Council Writers' Award for this, his first book, and went on to win the Guardian First Book Award and the Hawthornden Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Whitbread Book-of-the-Year Award in 2005 in the biography category, the Samuel Johnson Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States.

AS SEEN ON TV: ALEXANDER MASTERS Toby O'B 2009

Milton fell short of pleasing the royalist T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound judged him to be quite a small poet, about the size of Drummond of Hawthornden.

Heroic Milton: Happy Birthday Kermode, Frank 2009

And there are the stories passed on by Ben Jonson, recorded by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including recollections of Shakespeare's wit; Jonson was a competitor of Shakespeare's, and not reticent in criticizing others.

Archive 2007-01-01 Bardiac 2007

The poem was quite famous, selling over 100,000 copies, and it won the Hawthornden Prize.

Gift of a Book « So Many Books 2005

We surveyed Roslin Castle, the romantick scene around it, and the beautiful Gothick chapel, and dined and drank tea at the inn; after which we proceeded to Hawthornden, and viewed the caves; and

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006