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From: Susan Sweeney <sweeney@HOLYCROSS.EDU>
Here's a small Nabokovian tidbit, especially for those of you who are
interested in "homes and haunts." The March 8 issue of the Boston
SUNDAY GLOBE MAGAZINE featured an article entitled "A New Lease:
How the End of Rent Control is Transforming One Block in Cambridge."
Craigie Circle is described as follows:
"There is something almost manorial about Craigie Circle, a tiny
cul-de-sac a short walk from Harvard Square. Perched on the edge of
the Brattle Street historic district, it is surrounded by fine homes and
nestled against the tony Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School. The
Circle is also a world unto itself: Two red-brick buildings face each other
across a narrow strip of pavement, and an imposing turn-of-the-century
wood-frame house dominates the top of the lane. . . . An air of
exclusivity once permeated the neighborhood. Its most famous resident,
Vladimir Nabokov, the author of LOLITA, lived there in the 1940s, when
he was a research fellow in Harvard's entomology department. His link
to Craigie Circle was strong enough to make his former building a stop on
a `poet's walk' of Cambridge a few years ago . . ." (13).
No mention, alas, of the view from his study window that VN describes
in BEND SINISTER.
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
Worcester, MA 01610
Telephone (508) 793-2690
Here's a small Nabokovian tidbit, especially for those of you who are
interested in "homes and haunts." The March 8 issue of the Boston
SUNDAY GLOBE MAGAZINE featured an article entitled "A New Lease:
How the End of Rent Control is Transforming One Block in Cambridge."
Craigie Circle is described as follows:
"There is something almost manorial about Craigie Circle, a tiny
cul-de-sac a short walk from Harvard Square. Perched on the edge of
the Brattle Street historic district, it is surrounded by fine homes and
nestled against the tony Buckingham, Browne & Nichols School. The
Circle is also a world unto itself: Two red-brick buildings face each other
across a narrow strip of pavement, and an imposing turn-of-the-century
wood-frame house dominates the top of the lane. . . . An air of
exclusivity once permeated the neighborhood. Its most famous resident,
Vladimir Nabokov, the author of LOLITA, lived there in the 1940s, when
he was a research fellow in Harvard's entomology department. His link
to Craigie Circle was strong enough to make his former building a stop on
a `poet's walk' of Cambridge a few years ago . . ." (13).
No mention, alas, of the view from his study window that VN describes
in BEND SINISTER.
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Associate Professor of English
Holy Cross College
Worcester, MA 01610
Telephone (508) 793-2690