Citations:Stratford-on-Avon

English citations of Stratford-on-Avon

Idyllic England

• 1883, George Augustus Sala, Living London: Being Echoes Reechoed, page 311:

  The Mormon metropolis is, in one respect, a Stratford-on-Avon writ very large indeed.

• 1971, Charles Philips Trevelyan, The great new people: letters from North America and the Pacific, 1898, page 74:

  But you must not imagine a Stratford-on-Avon.

• 1942, Barbara Cartland, Ronald Cartland, page 130:

  Mr. Baldwin has done more than any man who has held office to waken English people to what England means — the green fields, the Stratford-upon-Avons

• 1957, The Foundry Trade Journal, page 454:

  Nuneaton was not a Stratford on Avon, nor had it a salubrious air.

Historic landmark

• 1979, Steven Kagle, America: Exploration and Travel, page 82:

  If America is not privileged enough to have a Stratford-on-Avon, it still has a Concord

• 1981, Hermann Matthias Görgen, Brazil: Impressions and Insight, page 123:

  Today the whole city is classified as being of historic interest, a Stratford-on-Avon in Brazil