About this episode

Gretel le Maître explores the beauty and curiosities in literature, focusing on authors like Trollope, Hardy, and C Brontë.

Send us Fan Mail Support the show Gretel le Maître likes to look for the beauty and curiosities in life, one day at a time. She shares with you snippets from books about history, art and literature and regularly takes you on adventures to new locations, to explore churches, cathedrals and architecture. We’ve reached 63,000 downloads. Thank you!! Historian Tom Holland is the Honorary Patron of this podcast. Thank you Tom🙏 Gretel invites you to accompany her as sh...

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Host: Gretel le Maître

Topics covered

• literature
• history
• art
• architecture
• exploration

Keywords

• literature
• Trollope
• Hardy
• C Brontë
• art
• history
• architecture

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Trollope, Hardy, C Brontë

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