2. England...…...............................28
Italy........................................6
5. Norway..................................4
6. France.....................................2
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Places I Have Already Been To
1. United States...…........................29
2. England...…...............................28
3. Ireland....................................6
Italy........................................6
5. Norway..................................4
6. France.....................................2
2. England...…...............................28
Italy........................................6
5. Norway..................................4
6. France.....................................2
George Eliot
The George Eliot titles selected for the NIE World's Greatest Literature canon were Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner, published in back-to-back-to-back years (1859-60-61) when the author was 40, 41 & 42 years old, right at the peak age for writers I have frequently identified (ed.--and which I am passing through right now, this being of interest to myself as I had long anticipated that the years 2010-2012 would mark the pinnacle both of my mental vitality and my career. This did not prove to be the case). Middlemarch, which appeared a decade after these books and at present seems to be almost unanimously accepted as George Eliot's masterpiece (including by me) was not chosen for this 1958 list, which was aimed at adolescents (and perhaps literary adolescents of all ages), and maybe the travails of Causabon and Dorothea and Fred Vincy and Will Ladislaw was a little too relentlessly mature and serious; or, as seems more likely to me, the literary world at the time was for various reasons unable to appreciate its outstanding and substantial qualities with an enthusiasm equivalent to ours. Many critical assessments of George Eliot from the 1920-1960 period, while they acknowledge her importance, especially in her own time, express at best a lukewarm affection towards her work. She was frequently tarred by the damning label 'sentimental' which may have been a more distasteful term among the literati at that time than it is today (because I think we affect a repulsion that they really felt) . Apart from some of her endings, which, at least in her earlier efforts, was probably her weakest point as a writer, she does not I think immediately strike the modern reader, who has come of age in a culture nearly drowned in treacle, as particularly given over to sentiment, though I suppose I can see what these of our forebears in reading were getting at.
My personal, and somewhat spare George Eliot library, consisting of two 90s era Penguins, a 90s Modern Library, and turn-of-the-21st century Everyman's. The hardcover Middlemarch is my wife's. It was a St John's book in our era at least, hence the two copies. These are the only three George Eliot books I have read, though Silas Marner at least is on the reading list I have been following since 1994, assuming I live long enough to get to it. There will have been a long lacuna between George Eliot books, as I read the others within a fairly close time:
Mill on the Floss: started September 16, 1995
Middlemarch: March, 1993, in school, finished about half; started again May 26,1998
Adam Bede: December 30, 2000
George Eliot seems to be obviously one of the greatest novelists of all time, yet traditionally this has not always been acknowledged with what is called real feeling. The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner especially were required school readings for many years and developed the reputation among nearly everyone who was not an overeager English major as the sine qua non of boring literature. This impression was so ingrained in me that I was really quite surprised when I took up The Mill on the Floss myself that it was not merely readable but one of the most moving and deeply conceived novels, apart from the ending, that I had ever read. It is very much like a mini-Middlemarch, the protagonist and many of the major characters being children and young people, and the limitations of their activities and concerns which that necessitates, but the detail and expansiveness within the confines of the story and the fine rendering of a very precise literary world are in common with the other book. Adam Bede partakes of these same excellencies of literary technique and vision. I would rank it slightly behind the other two because its characters are not as interesting or humorous, though they are drawn with no less care and detail than those in the other books. 19th century rural England must in general rate among the more vivid and familiar of all literary locales, though I am aware that its character differs according to author, time period, region, and so forth, i.e. Hardy, Emily Bronte, D.H. Lawrence and so on; but George Eliot may be the single most important figure in bestowing upon the Victorian Middle England countryside its essential immortal character. I think so at least.
The NIE editor(s), in the very brief introduction to Adam Bede such as accompanies all the plot summaries in the collection, appeared not to have read the book any time recently, as he describes it as "quite short". Say what? The Everyman's edition above runs 613 pages. And it is not big type.
For Silas Marner, our guide advises, "One should not avoid reading it even if his school permits him to."
George Eliot was born in a house called South Farm on the Arbury Estate, two miles SW of Nuneaton in Warwickshire. The house appears to still stand. It is not clear to me whether it is ever open to the public or not. The doors of the main Arbury Hall, or some of them, look as if they are thrown open on bank holiday weekends in summer. Nuneaton, which seems to have been village in George's day, is now a large suburb of 70,000 nine miles from Coventry and twenty from Birmingham. Griff House, where she lived for most of her first 21 years, also still stands. It now houses a hotel and tavern. The Nuneaton Museum and Art Gallery, if nothing else, has a collection of some George Eliot memorabilia.
George Eliot was buried in the east section of Highgate Cemetery, somewhat celebrated as a decently-preserved patch of Victoriana, in Highgate, London. These photos and the ticket stub below are from my visit of September 8, 1996.
There is a statue of George Eliot in the center of Nuneaton, and a separate garden and obelisk in the same city. I offered some views on why it is worthwhile to seek out memorial statuary in the William Faulkner article. She is also commemorated by a stone in Westminster Abbey.
The neighborhood of Highgate in 1996 at least still looked recognizably like what a person whose ideas of London are mainly derived from reading novels of the 1920s and 30s would expect it to look like. Brick walls, leafy squares closed in by cast iron fences, long vistas of Edwardian era housefronts, quiet. But it was a long time ago, and my memory may be deceiving me. Probably most people of intellect would have found numerous things about it that repulsed them, but sentiment obviously is too strong in me. Since nothing interesting ever happens to me wherever I go I find a great pleasure in feeling like I could be in the setting of one of the kinds of books I like, where something important at least happened in someone's imagination at one time. This is what life gets reduced to when you lack the capacity to be one of the people pushing it forward.
I don't have any idea what this film version of Mill on the Floss is. It does not appear to be the 1937 British effort whose cast included James Mason as Tom Tulliver. The various modern versions are probably better (I see one of them starred Emily Watson, whom I like, sometimes as maybe more than just a friend, as Maggie) than this, but there is a kind of literate irreverence in these older adaptations that is amusing in small doses.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Top Cities
1/26/2016--I am suspending updating on this page for the time being as I am finding it difficult to keep track of the totals for the many lower-rated cities that may or may not be rising in the ranks.
1. London, England.............................70
2. Paris, France....................................41
3. Rome, Italy......................................24
4. Moscow, Russia...............................17
5. St Petersburg, Russia.......................10
6. Edinburgh, Scotland..........................8
Florence, Italy...................................8
New York, NY, USA........................8
9. Cambridge, MA, USA......................7
Springfield, IL, USA........................7
11. Bangkok, Thailand...........................5
Berlin, Germany..............................5
Duxbury, MA, USA.........................5
Plymouth, MA, USA.......................5
Washington, DC, USA....................5
16. Athens, Greece...............................4
Concord, MA, USA........................4
Jerusalem, Israel.............................4
Marseilles, France...........................4
San Francisco, CA, USA................4
Sauk Centre, MN, USA..................4
Stockholm, Sweden........................4
23.Alexandria, Egypt...........................3
Bergamo, Italy.................................3
Copenhagen, Denmark....................3
Gort, Ireland.....................................3
Granada, Spain.................................3
Houghton, England..........................3
Milan, Italy......................................3
Milwaukee, WI, USA.....................3
Portland, ME, USA.........................3
Providence, RI, USA......................3
South Berwick, ME, USA...............3
1. London, England.............................70
2. Paris, France....................................41
3. Rome, Italy......................................24
4. Moscow, Russia...............................17
5. St Petersburg, Russia.......................10
6. Edinburgh, Scotland..........................8
Florence, Italy...................................8
New York, NY, USA........................8
9. Cambridge, MA, USA......................7
Springfield, IL, USA........................7
11. Bangkok, Thailand...........................5
Berlin, Germany..............................5
Duxbury, MA, USA.........................5
Plymouth, MA, USA.......................5
Washington, DC, USA....................5
16. Athens, Greece...............................4
Concord, MA, USA........................4
Jerusalem, Israel.............................4
Marseilles, France...........................4
San Francisco, CA, USA................4
Sauk Centre, MN, USA..................4
Stockholm, Sweden........................4
23.Alexandria, Egypt...........................3
Bergamo, Italy.................................3
Copenhagen, Denmark....................3
Gort, Ireland.....................................3
Granada, Spain.................................3
Houghton, England..........................3
Milan, Italy......................................3
Milwaukee, WI, USA.....................3
Portland, ME, USA.........................3
Providence, RI, USA......................3
South Berwick, ME, USA...............3
William Faulkner
The Faulkner books that were chosen for the encyclopedia reading list were The Sound and the Fury (1929), Sanctuary (1931), Absalom, Absalom (1936) and Requiem For a Nun (1951). A half-century on, there is little controversy about his greatness compared with nearly anyone else in American literary history. The shadow of his work is still a formidable presence to a good many working literary people at least my age and over, in the south especially of course, but even to a northerner his books still strike one immediately as possibly--we are still far too given over to nihilism for the most part to really believe this-- having real meaning and importance for one's life.
In my own career to this point I have rather surprisingly only read The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom, and the celebrated short story "A Rose For Emily". Absalom, Absalom impressed itself upon me as a masterpiece, and I wrote about it briefly on the mother blog a few years back. The Sound and the Fury I have read twice. The first time was in high school, in unison with Joyce, which were the first instances where I began to grasp, doubtless because it is so blatantly apparent in these authors, that there was such a thing as literary technique, and as such I thought it a most remarkable book. The second I was still rather young, age 25, and while I found some of the narrative devices a little wearisome I still admired the prose a great deal. Faulkner is one of the most painterly of authors, and his descriptions of light, and shadows, and dusty roads, and Harvard dormitories in winter, and sweaty pillows and such, have remained with me throughout all the long years since I read about them. "A Rose for Emily" did not have as strong of an impact on me, probably because I don't understand it completely enough, but its construction and prose did give the sense of having attained a kind of perfection of the miniature form, especially in its time.
Oddly, through most of my 20s and 30s I thought of myself as not liking Faulkner much because of the grotesqueness of his characters and his themes, and because of a general prejudice I held towards southerners. I suppose I still don't think of him as someone I can exactly like in a general way. There are things about him I like in my own way, and I could I share that liking with people who were more or less akin to me in temperament. I'm outside that whole Southern literary culture scene and mentality, and I can't really approach him that way.
Here is my personal library of Faulkner books, which as you can see is pretty paltry. The Faulkner Reader contains the full Sound and Fury, so I've got three copies of that at least.
Faulkner was born on the corner of Jefferson & Cleveland Streets in New Albany, Mississippi, in the northeastern part of the state. Interstate 22 passes right through town. I can't figure out if the birth house is still standing, but one block away, at 114 Cleveland Street, stands the Union County Heritage Museum, which naturally has a section devoted to the author, though he only lived in New Albany for fourteen months.
The main city associated with Faulkner is Oxford, home of the University of Mississippi and by all accounts a charming place to visit. It appears to be 15 or 20 miles off of the Interstate (55, in this instant). Houses and museums of authors, even major ones, are closing as tourist attractions left and right due to lack of interest and associated funding problems, but Faulkner's house, "Rowan Oak", is evidently the top attraction in that entire part of Mississippi, to the point of making many would-be pilgrims self-conscious or embarrassed about going there. Here is a pretty good video one tourist made while there:
Other Faulkner-related sites that might be worth a dropping by if one were hanging around town for a few hours include the College Hill Presbyterian Church where he was married--the church dates to 1846 and was also used by General Sherman's army as living quarters, and the statue of the 1949 Nobel Prize winner in front of the courthouse. Yes, a statue is not terribly exciting in itself, but I find them useful as landmarks, as they tend to be located in the livelier and most attractive parts of town, which guys like me have trouble finding on their own sometimes.
Faulkner is also buried in Oxford, at St Peter's cemetery. I'm sure the location of the grave is well-marked.
I was actually on my way to Oxford, Mississippi in May, 2003 to see some of these places, and I got to just south of New Madrid, Missouri, when the three long beeps of the Emergency Broadcast System, without the usual disclaimer of the test, interrupted the radio program we were listening to and announced that there was a tornado warning for some county or other--Scott County, perhaps?--which meant nothing to me. However, about ten seconds after the announcement, we passed a sign reading "You are entering Scott County", and about two minutes after that, the wind began to pick up considerably and the rain coming down in a highly dramatic manner. That was the last occasion that I ever purposely stayed in the cheapest hotel available without any regard to quality. After pulling off the highway in that toe of Southeastern Missouri I eschewed all of the standard brand names in favor of a pokey little dump called, imaginatively, "Budget Hotel". Though I had by this time retreated from my former vow to never pay more than $50 a night for a hotel room, I was then still holding the line at 100. In truth while I probably would have noticed all of the things that were awful about it, I considered in those days that my station in life required that I endure the soggy carpets, the dirty towels, the teeming insects and the unscrubbed blood in the sinks, until such time as I had proven myself worthy of rising above such accommodations. While I never actually accomplished this, and remain uncomfortable with the most modest suggestion of bourgeois luxury, let alone anything really swanky, the Budget Hotel in Tornado Alley was the last inn of its class I have ever been suffered to stay in unvetted. The next morning the sky remained forbidding and the forecast indicated continued tornado activity all across northern Mississippi along our planned route. So reluctantly I submitted to turning around and heading back towards Chicago, and have still never been to Mississippi, though I do think that is one place I still may get to someday.
The house where Faulkner lived at 624 Pirate's Alley in New Orleans is now a bookstore and literary meeting place/flophouse of some kind. It seems like it would not be a bad place to stop in if one happened to be in town (and of course was young/good-looking/talented/had a personality/was clever/understood literature and something of life, etc. My advices do not apply to losers).
I can't any actual film footage of Faulkner speaking, even though he lived until 1962, though above is a recording of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
As far as the college standings go, Faulkner attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters and I thought he attended Harvard very briefly as well. However I have decided for my purposes here to institute a (admittedly arbitrary) 2-year rule for a college to get its full credit for a great writer, so no points are awarded here.
The dates of my reading/beginning these Faulkner books, for my own personal reference are:
The Sound & the Fury: High School Senior Year 1987-88, and again June 15, 1995
"A Rose For Emily" September 28, 1998
Absalom, Absalom: October 30, 2005
In my own career to this point I have rather surprisingly only read The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom, and the celebrated short story "A Rose For Emily". Absalom, Absalom impressed itself upon me as a masterpiece, and I wrote about it briefly on the mother blog a few years back. The Sound and the Fury I have read twice. The first time was in high school, in unison with Joyce, which were the first instances where I began to grasp, doubtless because it is so blatantly apparent in these authors, that there was such a thing as literary technique, and as such I thought it a most remarkable book. The second I was still rather young, age 25, and while I found some of the narrative devices a little wearisome I still admired the prose a great deal. Faulkner is one of the most painterly of authors, and his descriptions of light, and shadows, and dusty roads, and Harvard dormitories in winter, and sweaty pillows and such, have remained with me throughout all the long years since I read about them. "A Rose for Emily" did not have as strong of an impact on me, probably because I don't understand it completely enough, but its construction and prose did give the sense of having attained a kind of perfection of the miniature form, especially in its time.
Oddly, through most of my 20s and 30s I thought of myself as not liking Faulkner much because of the grotesqueness of his characters and his themes, and because of a general prejudice I held towards southerners. I suppose I still don't think of him as someone I can exactly like in a general way. There are things about him I like in my own way, and I could I share that liking with people who were more or less akin to me in temperament. I'm outside that whole Southern literary culture scene and mentality, and I can't really approach him that way.
Here is my personal library of Faulkner books, which as you can see is pretty paltry. The Faulkner Reader contains the full Sound and Fury, so I've got three copies of that at least.
Faulkner was born on the corner of Jefferson & Cleveland Streets in New Albany, Mississippi, in the northeastern part of the state. Interstate 22 passes right through town. I can't figure out if the birth house is still standing, but one block away, at 114 Cleveland Street, stands the Union County Heritage Museum, which naturally has a section devoted to the author, though he only lived in New Albany for fourteen months.
The main city associated with Faulkner is Oxford, home of the University of Mississippi and by all accounts a charming place to visit. It appears to be 15 or 20 miles off of the Interstate (55, in this instant). Houses and museums of authors, even major ones, are closing as tourist attractions left and right due to lack of interest and associated funding problems, but Faulkner's house, "Rowan Oak", is evidently the top attraction in that entire part of Mississippi, to the point of making many would-be pilgrims self-conscious or embarrassed about going there. Here is a pretty good video one tourist made while there:
Other Faulkner-related sites that might be worth a dropping by if one were hanging around town for a few hours include the College Hill Presbyterian Church where he was married--the church dates to 1846 and was also used by General Sherman's army as living quarters, and the statue of the 1949 Nobel Prize winner in front of the courthouse. Yes, a statue is not terribly exciting in itself, but I find them useful as landmarks, as they tend to be located in the livelier and most attractive parts of town, which guys like me have trouble finding on their own sometimes.
Faulkner is also buried in Oxford, at St Peter's cemetery. I'm sure the location of the grave is well-marked.
I was actually on my way to Oxford, Mississippi in May, 2003 to see some of these places, and I got to just south of New Madrid, Missouri, when the three long beeps of the Emergency Broadcast System, without the usual disclaimer of the test, interrupted the radio program we were listening to and announced that there was a tornado warning for some county or other--Scott County, perhaps?--which meant nothing to me. However, about ten seconds after the announcement, we passed a sign reading "You are entering Scott County", and about two minutes after that, the wind began to pick up considerably and the rain coming down in a highly dramatic manner. That was the last occasion that I ever purposely stayed in the cheapest hotel available without any regard to quality. After pulling off the highway in that toe of Southeastern Missouri I eschewed all of the standard brand names in favor of a pokey little dump called, imaginatively, "Budget Hotel". Though I had by this time retreated from my former vow to never pay more than $50 a night for a hotel room, I was then still holding the line at 100. In truth while I probably would have noticed all of the things that were awful about it, I considered in those days that my station in life required that I endure the soggy carpets, the dirty towels, the teeming insects and the unscrubbed blood in the sinks, until such time as I had proven myself worthy of rising above such accommodations. While I never actually accomplished this, and remain uncomfortable with the most modest suggestion of bourgeois luxury, let alone anything really swanky, the Budget Hotel in Tornado Alley was the last inn of its class I have ever been suffered to stay in unvetted. The next morning the sky remained forbidding and the forecast indicated continued tornado activity all across northern Mississippi along our planned route. So reluctantly I submitted to turning around and heading back towards Chicago, and have still never been to Mississippi, though I do think that is one place I still may get to someday.
The house where Faulkner lived at 624 Pirate's Alley in New Orleans is now a bookstore and literary meeting place/flophouse of some kind. It seems like it would not be a bad place to stop in if one happened to be in town (and of course was young/good-looking/talented/had a personality/was clever/understood literature and something of life, etc. My advices do not apply to losers).
I can't any actual film footage of Faulkner speaking, even though he lived until 1962, though above is a recording of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech.
As far as the college standings go, Faulkner attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters and I thought he attended Harvard very briefly as well. However I have decided for my purposes here to institute a (admittedly arbitrary) 2-year rule for a college to get its full credit for a great writer, so no points are awarded here.
The dates of my reading/beginning these Faulkner books, for my own personal reference are:
The Sound & the Fury: High School Senior Year 1987-88, and again June 15, 1995
"A Rose For Emily" September 28, 1998
Absalom, Absalom: October 30, 2005
Thursday, June 28, 2012
John Drinkwater
John Drinkwater is on the list for his play Abraham Lincoln, first produced in 1918 when he was 36 years old. Lincoln himself should doubtless be a category; however I think I will go through and record all of the authors first, and then go back and do the pages for the various special subjects, places, and so on referenced in the selected literature.
Drinkwater was born at Dorset Villa, 105 Fairlop Road in Leytonstone, London (the British, and the Europeans generally, are much better at recording this kind of information than Americans are, who just want you to read the books and not try to make any personal connection with where they came from). This address is very near Leytonstone tube station on the red line at the edge of zone three and zone four, which means it was pretty far out in 1882 when Drinkwater was born. His grave is in the churchyard of the village of Piddington, in Oxfordshire. Without a car you would probably have to catch a bus there from Oxford, which is 10 miles away; or course if you had time you could walk. As I will probably never make it there I will link a picture of the grave, which is an attractive one, Drinkwater dying in 1937, which was a period when people had an appreciation for both the solemnity of dying and the fragile beauty of their cultural tradition.
Abraham Lincoln was apparently made into a silent film in 1924, but there is as yet no clip of it circulating on the internet, if indeed it still exists. There is a brief recording from 1929 of Drinkwater reading or more likely reciting his poem, "The Vagabond" with the incomparable Edwardian-era diction:
Drinkwater was the son of a schoolmaster who became an actor, so it is not surprising that he would have learned how to speak with some dash. The family was not evidently upper-middle class enough to give him much formal education however, as he does not seem to have attended university and worked from ages 16 through 19 at the Northern Assurance company in Nottingham. I am not sure how he managed to become an author, though by age 27 the "Vagabond" had been written, and by 31 (1913) he was established enough to form one of the social and literary circle of Rupert Brooke, Lascelles Abercrombie and others of the so-called "Georgian Poets", who specialized in a kind of doomed traditional, pastoral, safe brand of poetry in the brief few years between the ascension of George V to the British throne and the outbreak of World War I, at the same time as the early thrusts of full-fledged modernism were thrusting themselves into the collective consciousness of the age.
The Encyclopedia Brittanica describes him as "remembered as a typical man of letters of the Georgian age of the 1910s and 1920s." This is an age, in literature and the other arts, that even in its minor achievements seems to be growing ever more attractive with the passing of time. Drinkwater is not yet entirely forgotten.
Drinkwater was born at Dorset Villa, 105 Fairlop Road in Leytonstone, London (the British, and the Europeans generally, are much better at recording this kind of information than Americans are, who just want you to read the books and not try to make any personal connection with where they came from). This address is very near Leytonstone tube station on the red line at the edge of zone three and zone four, which means it was pretty far out in 1882 when Drinkwater was born. His grave is in the churchyard of the village of Piddington, in Oxfordshire. Without a car you would probably have to catch a bus there from Oxford, which is 10 miles away; or course if you had time you could walk. As I will probably never make it there I will link a picture of the grave, which is an attractive one, Drinkwater dying in 1937, which was a period when people had an appreciation for both the solemnity of dying and the fragile beauty of their cultural tradition.
Abraham Lincoln was apparently made into a silent film in 1924, but there is as yet no clip of it circulating on the internet, if indeed it still exists. There is a brief recording from 1929 of Drinkwater reading or more likely reciting his poem, "The Vagabond" with the incomparable Edwardian-era diction:
Drinkwater was the son of a schoolmaster who became an actor, so it is not surprising that he would have learned how to speak with some dash. The family was not evidently upper-middle class enough to give him much formal education however, as he does not seem to have attended university and worked from ages 16 through 19 at the Northern Assurance company in Nottingham. I am not sure how he managed to become an author, though by age 27 the "Vagabond" had been written, and by 31 (1913) he was established enough to form one of the social and literary circle of Rupert Brooke, Lascelles Abercrombie and others of the so-called "Georgian Poets", who specialized in a kind of doomed traditional, pastoral, safe brand of poetry in the brief few years between the ascension of George V to the British throne and the outbreak of World War I, at the same time as the early thrusts of full-fledged modernism were thrusting themselves into the collective consciousness of the age.
The Encyclopedia Brittanica describes him as "remembered as a typical man of letters of the Georgian age of the 1910s and 1920s." This is an age, in literature and the other arts, that even in its minor achievements seems to be growing ever more attractive with the passing of time. Drinkwater is not yet entirely forgotten.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Most Frequent Colleges (Undergrad) Attended by Celebrated Authors (and Selected of Their Subjects)
1. Harvard..................................................21
2. Edinburgh................................................9
Trinity (Cambridge)……………………9
4. Balliol (Oxford)…...……………………8
5. Trinity (Dublin)………………………….7
Yale...…………………………………….7
7. California (Berkeley).............................4
Humboldt (Berlin).................................4
9. Christ's (Cambridge)..............................3
Columbia................................................3
Glasgow...……………………………...3
Hertford (Oxford)...................................3
Kings (Cambridge).................................3
Kings (London)………………………..3
Leipzig...……………………………….3
Magdalen (Oxford).................................3
Marburg...……………………………...3
Paris (Sorbonne).....................................3
Princeton................................................3
St Petersburg State (Russia)...................3
Trinity (Oxford)………………………..3
Uppsala...................................................3
23. Aberdeen...............................................2
Army.......................................................2
Bern...…………………………………..2
Bonn........................................................2
Bowdoin..................................................2
Brasenose (Oxford).................................2
Chicago...……………………………….2
Christ Church (Oxford)...........................2
Conservatoire de Paris............................2
Cornell.....................................................2
Corpus Christi (Cambridge)....................2
Exeter (Oxford).......................................2
Gottingen...……………………………..2
Jesus (Cambridge)...................................2
Queen's (Oxford).....................................2
Radcliffe...……………………………...2
Royal Academy of Arts (London)……..2
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts ..........2
St John's (Cambridge).............................2
Trinity Hall (Cambridge).........................2
Union.......................................................2
University (Dublin)..................................2
Washington (Missouri)............................2
46.Algiers.....................................................1
Art Institute of Chicago...……………….1
Bates.........................................................1
Berlin........................................................1
Berlin University of the Arts....................1
Birkbeck (London)...................................1
Bordeaux..................................................1
Brest Naval College..................................1
Brown.......................................................1
Canterbury (Oxford)…………………….1
Carroll (Wisconsin)..................................1
CCNY.......................................................1
Central School of Speech & Drama (UK).1
Christ Church (Cambridge)......................1
College of Charleston...............................1
Conservatorio di Bologna.........................1
Conservatorio di Milano...........................1
Copenhagen..............................................1
Curtis Institute of Music...........................1
Drake.........................................................1
Dublin........................................................1
Ecole Militaire..........................................1
Ecole National des Chartes……………...1
Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris)............1
Ecole Polytechnique..................................1
Erskine (S.C.)............................................1
Escuela de Caminos..................................1
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena........1
Ghent.........................................................1
Grinnell.....................................................1
Halle...…………………………………...1
Haverford...................................................1
Heidelberg.................................................1
Helsinki......................................................1
Imperial (London).....................................1
Imperial (Moscow)....................................1
Johns Hopkins...………………………….1
Lafayette.....................................................1
Lausanne...………………………………..1
Lawrence (Wisconsin)……………………1
Lehigh...…………………………………..1
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.1
Lycee Louis-le-Grand.................................1
Magdalene (Cambridge)…………………..1
Merton (Oxford)…………………………..1
Military & Engineering Technical U (St Petersburg)...1
Mississippi...………………………………1
Montpellier..................................................1
Moscow Conservatory...…………………..1
Moscow State (Russia)................................1
Munich.........................................................1
Muskingum..................................................1
National College of Art & Design (Dublin).1
Navy.............................................................1
Nebraska......................................................1
New (Oxford)..............................................1
New England Conservatory...…………….1
Newham (Cambridge).................................1
New York College of Music...…………….1
NYU............................................................1
North Carolina.............................................1
Oklahoma....................................................1
Oriel (Oxford)..............................................1
Oslo..............................................................1
Padua...........................................................1
Pembroke (Cambridge)................................1
Pembroke (Oxford)......................................1
Pittsburgh.....................................................1
Prytanee National Militaire..........................1
Purdue..........................................................1
Randolph-Macon..........................................1
Royal Academy of Music............................1
Royal College of Art (London)....................1
Royal College of Music...............................1
Royal Military College (Sandhurst)............1
Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts...…..1
St Andrew's..................................................1
St Catherine's (Oxford)................................1
St John's (Oxford)........................................1
St. Lawrence...……………………………..1
St. Mary Hall (Oxford)…………………….1
St Petersburg Conservatory..........................1
Somerville (Oxford).....................................1
Stanford........................................................1
SUNY-Buffalo..............................................1
Swarthmore...………………………………1
Syracuse........................................................1
Tsarkoye Selo Lyceum.................................1
Tubingen...………………………………….1
University College (London)........................1
University (Oxford).......................................1
Valencia........................................................1
Vanderbilt.....................................................1
Vienna...........................................................1
Vienna Polytechnic.......................................1
Virginia.........................................................1
Wake Forest..................................................1
Warsaw.........................................................1
Washington (Maryland)................................1
Wheaton (Illinois).........................................1
William and Mary.........................................1
Williams........................................................1
Wittenberg.....................................................1
Worcester (Oxford).......................................1
2. Edinburgh................................................9
Trinity (Cambridge)……………………9
4. Balliol (Oxford)…...……………………8
5. Trinity (Dublin)………………………….7
Yale...…………………………………….7
7. California (Berkeley).............................4
Humboldt (Berlin).................................4
9. Christ's (Cambridge)..............................3
Columbia................................................3
Glasgow...……………………………...3
Hertford (Oxford)...................................3
Kings (Cambridge).................................3
Kings (London)………………………..3
Leipzig...……………………………….3
Magdalen (Oxford).................................3
Marburg...……………………………...3
Paris (Sorbonne).....................................3
Princeton................................................3
St Petersburg State (Russia)...................3
Trinity (Oxford)………………………..3
Uppsala...................................................3
23. Aberdeen...............................................2
Army.......................................................2
Bern...…………………………………..2
Bonn........................................................2
Bowdoin..................................................2
Brasenose (Oxford).................................2
Chicago...……………………………….2
Christ Church (Oxford)...........................2
Conservatoire de Paris............................2
Cornell.....................................................2
Corpus Christi (Cambridge)....................2
Exeter (Oxford).......................................2
Gottingen...……………………………..2
Jesus (Cambridge)...................................2
Queen's (Oxford).....................................2
Radcliffe...……………………………...2
Royal Academy of Arts (London)……..2
Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts ..........2
St John's (Cambridge).............................2
Trinity Hall (Cambridge).........................2
Union.......................................................2
University (Dublin)..................................2
Washington (Missouri)............................2
46.Algiers.....................................................1
Art Institute of Chicago...……………….1
Bates.........................................................1
Berlin........................................................1
Berlin University of the Arts....................1
Birkbeck (London)...................................1
Bordeaux..................................................1
Brest Naval College..................................1
Brown.......................................................1
Canterbury (Oxford)…………………….1
Carroll (Wisconsin)..................................1
CCNY.......................................................1
Central School of Speech & Drama (UK).1
Christ Church (Cambridge)......................1
College of Charleston...............................1
Conservatorio di Bologna.........................1
Conservatorio di Milano...........................1
Copenhagen..............................................1
Curtis Institute of Music...........................1
Drake.........................................................1
Dublin........................................................1
Ecole Militaire..........................................1
Ecole National des Chartes……………...1
Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris)............1
Ecole Polytechnique..................................1
Erskine (S.C.)............................................1
Escuela de Caminos..................................1
Friedrich Schiller University of Jena........1
Ghent.........................................................1
Grinnell.....................................................1
Halle...…………………………………...1
Haverford...................................................1
Heidelberg.................................................1
Helsinki......................................................1
Imperial (London).....................................1
Imperial (Moscow)....................................1
Johns Hopkins...………………………….1
Lafayette.....................................................1
Lausanne...………………………………..1
Lawrence (Wisconsin)……………………1
Lehigh...…………………………………..1
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.1
Lycee Louis-le-Grand.................................1
Magdalene (Cambridge)…………………..1
Merton (Oxford)…………………………..1
Military & Engineering Technical U (St Petersburg)...1
Mississippi...………………………………1
Montpellier..................................................1
Moscow Conservatory...…………………..1
Moscow State (Russia)................................1
Munich.........................................................1
Muskingum..................................................1
National College of Art & Design (Dublin).1
Navy.............................................................1
Nebraska......................................................1
New (Oxford)..............................................1
New England Conservatory...…………….1
Newham (Cambridge).................................1
New York College of Music...…………….1
NYU............................................................1
North Carolina.............................................1
Oklahoma....................................................1
Oriel (Oxford)..............................................1
Oslo..............................................................1
Padua...........................................................1
Pembroke (Cambridge)................................1
Pembroke (Oxford)......................................1
Pittsburgh.....................................................1
Prytanee National Militaire..........................1
Purdue..........................................................1
Randolph-Macon..........................................1
Royal Academy of Music............................1
Royal College of Art (London)....................1
Royal College of Music...............................1
Royal Military College (Sandhurst)............1
Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts...…..1
St Andrew's..................................................1
St Catherine's (Oxford)................................1
St John's (Oxford)........................................1
St. Lawrence...……………………………..1
St. Mary Hall (Oxford)…………………….1
St Petersburg Conservatory..........................1
Somerville (Oxford).....................................1
Stanford........................................................1
SUNY-Buffalo..............................................1
Swarthmore...………………………………1
Syracuse........................................................1
Tsarkoye Selo Lyceum.................................1
Tubingen...………………………………….1
University College (London)........................1
University (Oxford).......................................1
Valencia........................................................1
Vanderbilt.....................................................1
Vienna...........................................................1
Vienna Polytechnic.......................................1
Virginia.........................................................1
Wake Forest..................................................1
Warsaw.........................................................1
Washington (Maryland)................................1
Wheaton (Illinois).........................................1
William and Mary.........................................1
Williams........................................................1
Wittenberg.....................................................1
Worcester (Oxford).......................................1
Country List
1. United States..........................................444
2. England..................................................341
3. France.....................................................164
4. Italy..........................................................97
5. Russia.......................................................67
6. Germany...................................................61
7. Scotland...................................................48
8. Ireland...………………………………...40
9. Greece......................................................38
10. Spain......................................................30
11. Switzerland............................................24
12. Austria...……………………………….14
13. Israel.......................................................13
14. Poland....................................................12
Sweden...………………………………12
16. Turkey....................................................11
17. Denmark..................................................9
India.........................................................9
19. Czech Republic........................................8
Norway....................................................8
Thailand...................................................7
Ukraine....................................................7
23. Canada.....................................................6
Wales.......................................................6
25. Algeria.....................................................4
Australia..................................................4
Egypt.......................................................4
Hungary...................................................4
Netherlands.............................................4
30. Belgium...................................................3
Finland.....................................................3
French Polynesia......................................3
Iceland......................................................3
Luxembourg.............................................3
Morocco...................................................3
36. China.......................................................2
Georgia....................................................2
Iran...……………………………………2
Jamaica....................................................2
Kazakhstan..............................................2
Lithuania..................................................2
Mexico.....................................................2
Northern Ireland......................................2
Samoa......................................................2
45. Argentina.................................................1
Azerbaijan................................................1
Bulgaria...................................................1
Cuba.........................................................1
Ecuador....................................................1
Japan........................................................1
Jordan......................................................1
Kenya.......................................................1
Latvia.......................................................1
Moldova...................................................1
Monaco.....................................................1
Myanmar..................................................1
New Zealand............................................1
North Pole................................................1
Phillipines.................................................1
Portugal....................................................1
Romania...................................................1
Tajikistan..................................................1
Tunisia......................................................1
2. England..................................................341
3. France.....................................................164
4. Italy..........................................................97
5. Russia.......................................................67
6. Germany...................................................61
7. Scotland...................................................48
8. Ireland...………………………………...40
9. Greece......................................................38
10. Spain......................................................30
11. Switzerland............................................24
12. Austria...……………………………….14
13. Israel.......................................................13
14. Poland....................................................12
Sweden...………………………………12
16. Turkey....................................................11
17. Denmark..................................................9
India.........................................................9
19. Czech Republic........................................8
Norway....................................................8
Thailand...................................................7
Ukraine....................................................7
23. Canada.....................................................6
Wales.......................................................6
25. Algeria.....................................................4
Australia..................................................4
Egypt.......................................................4
Hungary...................................................4
Netherlands.............................................4
30. Belgium...................................................3
Finland.....................................................3
French Polynesia......................................3
Iceland......................................................3
Luxembourg.............................................3
Morocco...................................................3
36. China.......................................................2
Georgia....................................................2
Iran...……………………………………2
Jamaica....................................................2
Kazakhstan..............................................2
Lithuania..................................................2
Mexico.....................................................2
Northern Ireland......................................2
Samoa......................................................2
45. Argentina.................................................1
Azerbaijan................................................1
Bulgaria...................................................1
Cuba.........................................................1
Ecuador....................................................1
Japan........................................................1
Jordan......................................................1
Kenya.......................................................1
Latvia.......................................................1
Moldova...................................................1
Monaco.....................................................1
Myanmar..................................................1
New Zealand............................................1
North Pole................................................1
Phillipines.................................................1
Portugal....................................................1
Romania...................................................1
Tajikistan..................................................1
Tunisia......................................................1
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