Bronte Parsonage visit:
Bronte and I went to visit the Bronte House in Haworth today - not quite Poe's house but a similar conservation project. Celebrating the life and works of the authors in a museum but allowing the public to go inside and look around the house in which they lived.
Incredible to see the actual clothes the girls wore, the real things! Creepy to see little locks of their hair. Since I'm not going to get to Poe's house for this project, this was a great day out and helped me to imagine what the Baltimore house is like, why people go there and how it is run.
The Bronte House had a gift shop too, selling novelty erasers, pencils and keyrings but also books and post cards. The best gift in there was a box of tea bags labelled BRON-TEA. Puns!
People shopping for gifts there are looking for something that says 'The Bronte Parsonage', or 'Haworth'. Either to keep as a souvenir or to give to friends on their return.
Do I need to make 'BALTIMORE' a bigger selling point on my book pack?
Do I need to make 'BALTIMORE' a bigger selling point on my book pack?
If only the 'Greetings From' brief hadn't put me off post cards so much, this would be a good form of print for Poe. A little postcard of the house as a memento of the museum!
On second thoughts, I don't think this suits Poe's attitude, it's making him commercial, whereas my book allows for creativity and interaction. More than a print. Also, a postcard be too small for the size format required.
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum v.s. Poe's House Baltimore Museum
COMPETING AGAINST THE RICHMOND MUSUEM. The houses that Poe lived in in Richmond were all destroyed, so the Richmond museum is just a commemorative site. It lacks the authenticity of the Poe house, the same eerie idea that you are stepping over the floorboards he lived on - just like the Bronte House has.
Yet the Richmond museum is perhaps more well-know, bigger, and has a larger gift shop.
Yet the Richmond museum is perhaps more well-know, bigger, and has a larger gift shop.
The Richmond museum also has a gift shop, so could fit in there too but my book specifically comments on the Baltimore HOUSE and his life THERE.
What do they have already in the gift shops?
https://www.poemuseum.org/books-and-media?Page=2&Items=12
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Richmond - books about POE IN RICHMOND, books about Poe, colouring books (cats/gardens/Victorian house)
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