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Frances Carroll 

Frances will be leading this holiday on 1 August 2012

Frances has been an enthusiastic student of English literature since primary school when a Mrs Darling sparked her interest! She loves visiting the areas where various writers lived and that they knew well, and tries to relate the reality to the fiction. Many years ago she was involved in running a small theatre and even occasionally appeared on stage. Now she works as a Blue Badge Guide, concentrating on literary tours and religious themes. She is also a keen hiker and tries to find routes that will allow her to visit some sort of literary shrine.

Frances is also leading the following holidays:

Theatre by the Lake - 7 July 2012, 11 July 2012, 1 September 2012 and 5 September 2012

Wordsworth's Literary Lakeland - Derwentwater, 13 June 2012

Discovery Tours - Sedbergh, 15 September 2012, and Whitby, 26 May 2012

Alycia Smith-Howard

Alycia will be leading this holiday on 15 October 2012

Alycia is a Shakespeare scholar, columnist and lecturer. She earned her PhD and MA from The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon. She has served as a Shakespeare and literature consultant for a diverse range of stage productions, competitions, radio and television programmes (such as Antiques Roadshow). She lectures for The Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, and The National Trust. She is the author of: Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place (2006), and The Critical Companion to Tennessee Williams (2005). In 2007, Studio Shakespeare was selected for the Victoria & Albert Museum Essential Shakespeare Reading List and nominated for the Theatre Book Prize by the London Society of Theatre Research. Alycia publishes regularly in print and online, and her monthly column, Notes from a Shakespeare Diva, is a popular, regular feature in Warwickshire Life magazine.

Alycia is also leading the following holidays:

A Shakespeare Tale - Bourton-on-the-Water, 20 June 2012

Shakespeare, Stratford & Warwick - Bourton-on-the-Water, 2 November 2012