Writers and their houses : a guide to the writers' houses of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland : essays by modern writers / edited by Kate Marsh ; with photographs by Harland Walshaw and Peter Burton
1993, First Edition. London : H. Hamilton. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Provenance: Rigby Graham's copy. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #445201
ISBN: 0241127696
Physical description: xviii, 514 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. Contents: Foreword / Melvyn Bragg -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Kate Marsh -- Jane Austen: Chawton, Hampshire / P. D. James -- J. M. Barrie: Kirriemuir, Angus / Ann Thwaite -- Bloomsbury Group: Charleston Farmhouse, Firle, E. Sussex / Frances Spalding -- James Boswell: Auchinleck House, Ayrshire; and Edinburgh / Thomas Crawford -- The Brontës: The Parsonage, Haworth, W. Yorkshire / Rebecca Fraser -- Rupert Brooke: The Old Vicarage, Grantchester / Mary Archer -- Edward Bulwer Lytton: Knebworth House, Hertfordshire / Sibylla Jane Flower -- John Bunyan: Elstow and Bedford / James Runcie -- Robert Burns: Alloway, Ayrshire / Douglas Dunn -- Lord Byron: Newstead Abbey, Linby, Nottinghamshire / Peter Porter -- Thomas and Jane Carlyle: 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London SW3 / Alethea Hayter ; Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway; and Haddington, E. Lothian / Ian Campbell -- Winston Churchill: Chartwell, Westerham, Kent / John Grigg -- William Cobbett: Farnham, Surrey / Michael Foot -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Nether Stowey, Somerset / Anthony Quinton -- William Cowper: Orchard Side, Olney, Buckinghamshire / Elizabeth Mavor -- Charles Darwin: Down House, Downe, Kent / Michael Neve -- Charles Dickens: Dickens House, 48, Doughty Street, London WC1 ; Birthplace Museum, Portsmouth, Hampshire / Claire Tomalin -- Benjamin Disraeli: Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire / Vernon Bogdanor -- George Eliot: Nuneaton / A. L. Barker -- Elizabeth Gaskell: Knutsford, Cheshire / Jenny Uglow -- Thomas Hardy: Higher Bockhampton; and Max Gate, Dorchester / Ronald Blythe -- Henry James: Lamb House, Rye, E. Sussex / Alan Judd -- Samuel Johnson: Birthplace Museum, Lichfield Staffordshire, 17 Gough Square, London EC4 / John Wain -- James Joyce: James Joyce Tower, Sandycove, Dublin / Anthony Cronin -- John Keats: Hampstead, London NW3 / Margaret Drabble -- Rudyard Kipling: Bateman's Burwash, E. Sussex / Philip Mason -- D. H. Lawrence: Eastwood, Nottinghamshire / Richard Hoggart -- T. E. Lawrence: Clouds Hill, Wareham, Dorset / Malcolm Brown -- John Milton: Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire / C. H. Sisson -- William Morris: Kelmscott Manor, Lechlade, Gloucestershire / Penelope Fitzgerald -- Alexander Pope: Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire ; Chiswick House, London W4 ; Pope's Grotto, Twickenham, Middlesex / Gavin Ewart -- Beatrix Potter: Hill Top, Near Sawrey, Cumbria / Jane Gardam -- John Ruskin: Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria / Robert Hewison -- Vita Sackville-West: Sissinghurst Castle, Cranbrook, Kent ; Knole, Sevenoaks, Kent / U. A. Fanthorpe -- Walter Scott: Abbotsford, Melrose, Roxburghshire / A. N. Wilson -- William Shakespeare: Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire / Tim Pigott-Smith -- Bernard Shaw: Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire / Michael Holroyd -- Philip Sidney: Penshurst Place, Kent ; Kenneth Baker -- The Sitwells: Renishaw Hall, near Sheffield, S. Yorkshire ; Wood End, Scarborough, N. Yorkshire ; Weston Hall, Towcester, Northamptonshire / Sarah Bradford -- Laurence Sterne: Shandy Hall, Coxwold, N. Yorkshire / Malcolm Bradbury -- Robert Louis Stevenson: Lady Stair's House, Edinburgh / Claire Harman -- Dylan Thomas: The Boat House, Laugharne, Dyfed / Glyn Jones -- Horace Walpole: Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, Middlesex / John Harris -- Izaak Walton: Shallowford, near Stafford / David Profumo -- Gilbert White: The Wakes, Selborne, Hampshire / Richard Mabey -- Virginia Woolf: Monk's House, Rodmell, E. Sussex / Jeanette Winterson -- William Wordsworth: Cockermouth, Cumbria ; Dove Cottage, Grasmere, Cumbria ; Rydal Mount, Ambleside, Cumbria / Melvyn Bragg -- W. B. Yeats: Thoor Ballylee, Gort, Galway / Seamus Heaney. Subjects: Literary landmarks Great Britain. Authors, English Homes and haunts Great Britain. Authors, Irish Homes and haunts Ireland.
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