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Author's Houses!

PostPosted: August 12th, 2011, 12:12 pm
by lizzie23
Hi peeps, i thought of starting this topic for a little fun, it's simple really just post a picture of the house of an author that you know (local or foreign)! i'll start with my favorite of all time - Jane Austen!

Chawton House, where Jane Austen wrote most of her brilliant, sparkling novels.
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Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton, Alton, Hampshire GU34 1SD ~ Tel: +44 (0)1420 83262

Re: Author's Houses!

PostPosted: August 12th, 2011, 12:43 pm
by Wanda
Hey, lizzie, this is a fun topic you started, ok here's mine as welll:

The Henley Street house in Stratford Upon Avon where William Shakespeare was born and where he spent the early years of married life with Anne Hathaway.
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Home of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes)
It was here that he wrote Sherlock Holmes novels including "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes." The house was designed by Conan Doyle, who oversaw its construction in the 1890s. Arthur Conan Doyle was told in 1893 that his consumptive wife had only months to live, he absorbed the diagnosis — then went home and built her a house — Undershaw — where she survived for another 13 years.
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Re: Author's Houses!

PostPosted: August 12th, 2011, 1:00 pm
by lizzie23
Hey wanda, nice! Galing naman ni Arthur Conan Doyle, he built the house himself for his wife, that's really nice :-D

Re: Author's Houses!

PostPosted: August 12th, 2011, 1:09 pm
by Wanda
Thanks lizzie23, yes actually there are only a few houses that the authors built and designed themselves so now Conan Doyle fans are trying to save it because its been abandoned and a developer wants to renovate it as 3 separate hosues.

here's a video

Re: Author's Houses!

PostPosted: August 12th, 2011, 1:27 pm
by bossjun
The Mark Twain House and Museum - home of Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens) from 1874 to 1891 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.
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Re: Author's Houses!

PostPosted: August 12th, 2011, 2:07 pm
by JP_cebu
Kay Neil Gaiman poh
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Neil Gaiman writing in his library.jpg

Re: Author's Houses!

PostPosted: August 12th, 2011, 5:32 pm
by lizzie23
Thanks, JP! Thats a really nice house, and the library, wow!
Hey you know that gave me an idea for a new topic! Celebrity Libraries! I'll start it in a new thread now!

Re: Author's Houses!

PostPosted: August 12th, 2011, 7:50 pm
by hirer
J. K. Rowling, current home in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Childhood home, Church Cottage, Tutshill Village
The childhood home which inspired Harry Potter author JK Rowling has gone on the market, complete with a spooky trapdoor, a cupboard under the stairs and even a secret scrawl penned by the author as a teenager.
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Re: Author's Houses!

PostPosted: August 19th, 2011, 6:21 pm
by mommyhelen
Love this topic, posting here the summer home of AGATHA CHRISTIE, Greenway House

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This is AGATHA CHRISTIE herself in the library
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And this is the library today.
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I read the house was opened to the public in 2009 then later that year they discovered a forgotten Hercule Poirot mystery in the attic. :-)

Re: Author's Houses!

PostPosted: August 19th, 2011, 6:34 pm
by mommyhelen
Eto pa, JOHN STEINBECK's House

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