“Sherlock Holmes and Jem Finch would agree.””
Quotes by Holme Lee
“Where we love is home, Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Homesick in Heaven””
“peace out my man!””
“But it wasn’t just Twain and Whitman whispering heresies into my ear, a whole ink spill of geniuses had staked their reputations on the argument that “Will Shake-speare” was one of the hyphenated pen names popular among Elizabethan satirists who didn’t fancy being disemboweled in public. The list of gadflies who questioned the official narrative of Shakespeare included Chaplin, Coleridge, Emerson, Gielgud, Hardy, Holmes, Jacobi, James, Joyce, Welles, and of late even Mark Rylance, the first artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Collectively they believed the Stratford businessman to be a front and a fraud. Whatever the truth, it’s fair to say the authorship debate had long been divided into two camps, artists vs. academics.””
“Wait, I thought. First de Vere and now Mary Sidney? That made two contenders for the title of Shakespeare who stood publicly accused of having fucked horses. What would Sherlock Holmes have made of such a clue?””
Holme Lee, the pseudonym of Harriet Parr, was an influential English author during the Victorian era known for her novels and children's stories. Born in 1828, she became a significant figure in the l...