Celia Fiennes

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Standard Name: Fiennes, Celia
Birth Name: Celia Fiennes
CF was a remarkable, indeed a unique, travel-writer about her own country. Travelling in the later seventeenth and the early eighteenth century, and writing the account that has come down to us in the latter, she is an immediate (independent instead of employed) predecessor of Daniel Defoe in his role as national surveyor. She was not an influence, however, for her work took a century even to be quoted in print, and longer still to be printed itself.
Colour photograph of the Celia Fiennes Waymark: a marker unveiled in December 1998 on No Man's Heath in Cheshire to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Fiennes's "Great Journey", on which she passed that way. The sculpted stone represents both Fiennes and her horse.
"Celia Fiennes, waymark of her travels" 2011-12-13. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:No_Fiennes_Heath_484.jpg. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

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Textual Production Jan Morris
More than a decade later, in 1978, JM followed her own portrait of Oxford by editing The Oxford Book of Oxford, a quirky anthology of often very short anecdotes and other excerpts, aimed less...

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1697
An Act of Parliament encouraged magistrates to set up signposts at confusing crossroads where travellers might otherwise take the wrong road.