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Natalie Dykstra


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Natalie Dykstra is emerita professor of English and senior research professor at Hope College. She received her undergraduate degree in Classics followed by graduate degrees in American Studies at the University of Wyoming and the University of Kansas.

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“There, Clover found the "gardens and great trees and old cottages...so beautiful" that seeing them exhausted her. It was as if, she joked with her husband, "this English world is a huge stage-play got up only to amuse Americans. It is obviously unreal, eccentric, and taken out of novels.”
― Natalie Dykstra, Clover Adams: A Gilded and Heartbreaking Life
tags: england, travel
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“Our faith might cause our light to shine on some other heart which as yet had no light of its own.”
― Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
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“Belle collected experiences and impressions almost as if they were objects that she could put in her hand.”
― Natalie Dykstra, Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
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