EUROPE
Jane Austen
Chawton Cottage, Hampshire
Various locations in Bath, Somerset
Visit the official Jane Austen Chawton website, the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, the Jane Austen's Bath site (from the VisitBath tourism folk) or get a quick overview from Wikipedia.
Bronte sisters
The Parsonage, Haworth, Yorkshire
Visit the official website of the Brontë Parsonage Museum and Brontë Society or learn more about the surrounding area.
Agatha Christie
Torquay, Devon, England
Chelsea, London
University College Hospital of University College, London
"Scotswood", Devenish Avenue, Sunningdale, Berkshire
Swan Hydropathic Hotel (now the Old Swan Hotel), Harrogate, Yorkshire
Greenway, Galmpton, Devon
Hotel Pera Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
Abney Hall, Cheadle, Cheshire
Winterbrook House in the north of Cholsey parish, adjoining Wallingford in Oxfordshire (formerly Berkshire)
Visit the National Trust page for Greenway or the official Agatha Christie website's Greenway page. Other Agatha Christie in London locations here.
Virginia Woolf
Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex, plus other homes including London, mentioned in her online biography.
Visit the official Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain website, the National Trust's Monk's House page, or the quick Wikipedia version.
See also the home of Vanessa Bell (artist and Virginia's sister) and Duncan Grant, at the nearby Charleston Farmhouse in Firle. Official Charleston website here.
William Shakespeare
Various buildings in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, London
Visit the official website of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust or learn more about Stratford-upon-Avon. PBS also has a map of locations with Shakespearean connections. Also visit the website for the Globe Theatre.
Charles Dickens
48 Doughty Street, Holborn, London WC1
387 Mile End Terrace, Landport, Portsea
1 Devonshire Terrace, London
Tavistock House, Bloomsbury, West London
Gad's Hill Place, Higham, Kent
Villa di Bella Vista (The Bagnerello), Albaro, Genoa
The Palace of the Marchese Pallavicini (the Peschiere), Genoa
Visit the Wikipedia pages for Doughty Street or Gad's Hill Place, or the official Charles Dickens Museum website. Extensive work has gone into collecting information and pictures of his Dickens' homes here.
Dylan Thomas
The Boat House, Laugharne, Wales
Visit the official Dylan Thomas website, the site of the Dylan Thomas Boathouse, the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea, or check out some other locations mentioned here.
James Joyce
Dublin, Trieste, Zürich and Paris
Visit the official James Joyce Centre which runs walking tours of Joyce locations around Dublin.
Daphne Du Maurier
Kilmarth, near the Cornish village of Tywardreath
Menabilly, Rashleigh Estate, Gribben peninsula, Fowey, Cornwall
Visit the DuMaurier website, the DuMaurier Festival website, or read the Wikipedia entry for Menabilly (inspiration for "Manderley" in "Rebecca")
JM Barrie
Brechin Road, Kirriemuir, Scotland (reported as both number 4 and number 9 Brechin Road)
Black Lake Cottage, near Tilford, Farnham, Surrey
Visit the National Trust of Scotland page for Barrie's birthplace, ANON: the J. M. Barrie Society's site or the J.M.Barrie website.
Lewis Carroll (aka Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
Parsonage of Daresbury near Runcorn, Cheshire, and the Rectory, Croft-on-Tees, North Yorkshire
Christ Church College, Oxford, Oxfordshire
The Chestnuts, located just outside Guildford Castle, Guildford, Surrey
Visit the Christ Church website, the Guildford Borough website with Lewis Carroll bio and walking tour information, or the site of the Lewis Carroll Society. Also check out Alice's Shop (The Old Sheep Shop), the shop used by the real Alice, now an Oxford landmark.
Daniel Defoe
Probably born in the parish of St. Giles Cripplegate, London
Newington Green, Islington, London
Chadwell St Mary, Tilbury, Essex
Learn more about Defoe here and here.
Thomas Carlyle
Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Craigenputtock, Dunscore, Dumfrieshire
24 Cheyne Row (then numbered 5), Chelsea, London SW3
Learn more about Thomas Carlyle here.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde House, 1 Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland
34 Tite Street, Chelsea, London (16 Tite Street in Wilde's lifetime)
Learn more from this Oscar Wilde site, or by watching the 1997 film, Wilde
, starring Stephen Fry and visiting the film's website. Visit the Discover Ireland page for his Dublin home in Merrion Square.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Edinburgh, Scotland
Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, and then Stonyhurst College, Hurst Green, Clitheroe, Lancashire
1 Bush Villas, Elm Grove, Southsea
12 Tennison Road, South Norwood, London
"Windlesham", Crowborough, East Sussex
Read about Sherlock Holmes here and the fictional address of 221B Baker Street, or more about the author from the City of Westminster Library.
Samuel Coleridge
Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England
Coleridge Cottage, Nether Stowey, Somerset, England
Keswick, Lake District, England
South Grove and later at the nearby 3 The Grove, Highgate, England
Visit the National Trust page for Coleridge Cottage and from the Friends of Coleridge Society website.
James Herriot aka James Alfred Wight
Brandling Street, Sunderland, County Durham, England
Glasgow, Scotland
23 Kirkgate, Thirsk, Yorkshire
Topcliffe Road, Thirsk, Hambleton, North Yorkshire
Thirlby, Hambleton, North Yorkshire
Check out the World of James Heriot website for more.
JRR Tolkien
Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa
Ward End, Birmingham, England
Sarehole (now in Hall Green), Birmingham
1 Duchess Place, Ladywood, Birmingham
4 Highfield Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham
Plough and Harrow, Hagley Road, Birmingham
Great Haywood, Staffordshire, England
20 Northmoor Road, North Oxford
Merton College, Oxford
76 Sandfield Road, Headington, Oxford
Bournemouth, England
Learn more from the Tolkein Estate website.
Thomas Hardy
Hardy's Cottage, Cherry Lane (Alley), Higher Bockhampton, Dorset
Kingston Maurward, Stinsford, Dorset
3 Wooperton Street, Weymouth, Dorset
West End Cottage, Belvedere Road, Swanage, Dorset
Llanherne, 16 Avenue Road, Wimbourne, Dorset
The King's Arms, High East Street, Dorchester
39 South Street, Dorchester, Dorset
North Cottage, Riverside Villas, Sturminster Newton, Dorset
Shire Hall Place, High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset
Talbothays Lodge,West Stafford, Dorset
Max Gate, Alington Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset
Extensive photos of Thomas Hardy locations can be found here and also text from this devoted site. Pages for both Hardy's Cottage and Max Gate can be found through the National Trust website.
Rudyard Kipling
Bombay, India
Southsea (Portsmouth), England
Lahore (now in Pakistan)
Simla (now Shimla), India
Villiers Street, The Strand, London
Bliss Cottage, Brattleboro, Vermont, US
Naulakha, Dummerston, Vermont
Torquay, Devon
"Bateman's", Burwash, East Sussex
Learn more from the Kipling Society website.
Beatrix Potter
Kensington, London
Dalguise House in Perthshire, Scotland
Lindeth Howe, Lake District, England
Hill Top Farm and Castle Cottage, Sawrey, Hawkshead, Lake District, England
See the National Trust website page for Hill Top.
George Bernard Shaw
Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland
29 Fitzroy Square, London, England
Shaw’s Corner, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England
Learn more from The Shaw Society's website.
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth House, Cumbria
Mary Shelley
Kenneth Grahame
Enid Blyton
TS Eliot
Robert Burns
Edinburgh
JK Rowling
William Butler Yeats
John Keats
Aldous Huxley
Godalming, Surrey, England
Brunner and Mond chemical plant in Billingham, Teesside
Garsington Manor, Garsington, near Oxford, England,
Italy
Taos, New Mexico
Los Angeles, California
Learn more about Huxley here.
George Orwell aka Eric Blair
Motihari, Bihar, Bengal Presidency, British India
Shiplake, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
Maymyo, Myaungmya, Syriam, Moulmein, and Katha, Burma
Southwold, Suffolk
Portobello Road, London
Pond Street/South End Green, NW3
Paris
Hawthorne High School for Boys, Hayes, West London
Frays College, Uxbridge, West London
77 Parliament Hill, Hampstead
Kentish Town
"Stores", Wallington, Hertfordshire
Dorset Chambers, Chagford Street, Marylebone, London
Langford Court, St John's Wood
Mortimer Crescent, Kilburn
27 Canonbury Square, Islington, N1 London
Drill Hall, Allisten Road, NW8
Victor Gollancz Publishers, 14 Henrietta Street, WC2
Jura in the Inner Hebrides
Camden, London
More information from the London Television Archive and the Penguin Books George Orwell page.
Flora Thompson
George Eliot
4 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London
John Ruskin
28 Herne Hill, London
163 Denmark Hill, London (note: The house is now the site of council flats. Ruskin Park, immediately south of the twin hospitals, is named in his honour.)
Brantwood, Lake Coniston, Lake District, Cumbria
Get more information from the Ruskin Museum, the London Parks and Gardens Trust website about Ruskin Park in Denmark Hill, and from the Brantwood Trust.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Robert Louis Stevenson
8 Howard Place, 1 Inverleith Terrace and 17 Heriot Row, Edinburgh
Barbizon, Grez-sur-Loing and Nemours, France
"Skerryvore", Westbourne, Dorset, England
Davos-Platz, Switzerland
Chalet de Solitude, Hyeres, France
Saranac Lake, Adirondacks, New York
Hawaiian Islands, Gilbert Islands, Tahiti and New Zealand
Vailima, Samoa
Read more about this constant traveller from the Dictionary of Literary Biography.
EM Forster
Abney Hall, Cheadle, Cheshire
Sir Walter Scott
Abbotsford House, near Galashiels, Scottish Borders, Scotland
Visit the official website for Abbotsford here.
Rumer Godden
Sussex, England
Narayanganj, then part of colonial India, now Bangladesh
Calcutta, India
Kashmir
Lamb House, Rye, East Sussex, England
Moniaive, Dumfrieshire, Scotland
Learn more from the official Rumer Godden Literary Trust.
PG Wodehouse
HG Wells
Jonathan Swift
Bram Stoker
Ian Fleming
Mayfair, London, England
Isle of Purbeck, Dorset
Sunningdale School, Berkshire
Eton College and Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Russia
Goldeneye, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica
Canterbury, Kent, England
Visit the official Ian Fleming website.
AUSTRALIA
Joan Lindsay
Hanging Rock, Woodend, Macedon
Clyde School, St Kilda, Victoria and later Braemar House, Woodend
Mulberry Hill, Langwarrin South, Victoria
Visit the National Trust of Australia's Mulberry Hill page, the Hanging Rock Information Site and the Wikipedia page for the Clyde School.
Miles Franklin
Talbingo Station, Talbingo, New South Wales
Brindabella Ranges, New South Wales
Visit the site of the Miles Franklin Award and bio info here.
Ethel Turner
"Inglewood" (now known as Woodlands), Werona Avenue, Lindfield, (now Killara), Sydney, New South Wales
"Avenel", Mosman, overlooking Middle Harbour, Sydney
Read more at The Australian Dictionary of Biography's Ethel Turner page.
Henry Lawson
Grenfell Goldfields, Weddin Shire, New South Wales
Mudgee, New South Wales
Blue Mountains, New South Wales
Mrs Isabel Byers' Coffee Palace, 145 Miller St, North Sydney
Read this entry for Henry Lawson in The Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson
"Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales
Queen Street, Woollahra, Sydney
Binalong, New South Wales
Visit the Reserve Bank of Australia website's AB 'Banjo' Paterson Biographical Summary
Frank Hardy
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria
Carlton North, Melbourne, Victoria
Read this article from the Trinity College, University of Melbourne, website about Frank Hardy.
Patrick White
"Dogwoods", Castle Hill, Sydney, New South Wales
20 Martin Street, Centennial Park, Sydney
Read about the area of Castle Hill or more about Patrick White via this ABC website.
Thomas Keneally
Sydney, Australia
Learn more from the Random House website.
Charmian Clift
Kiama, New South Wales
Greek Islands, Greece
Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales
Learn more from the Charmian Clift entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Richard Flanagan
Longford, Rosebery and Hobart, Tasmania
Check out his bio on the Contemporary Writers website or more about Richard and his latest book on the Wanting website.
Elizabeth Jolley
Claremont, Perth, Western Australia
Wooroloo, Darling, outside Perth, Western Australia
Visit the Elizabeth Jolley Research Collection at Curtin University
David Malouf
Brisbane, Queensland
Sydney, New South Wales
Tuscany, Italy
Visit the Random House bio of David Malouf.
Robert Dessaix
Sydney, New South Wales
Moscow, Russia
Learn more from on the Australian Literary Management website.
Tim Winton
Perth and Albany, Western Australia
Fremantle, Western Australia
Visit the website for "Breath" by Tim Winton.
UNITED STATES, CANADA AND CARIBBEAN
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boston, Massachusetts
"The Old Manse", Monument Street, Concord, Massachusetts
28 Cambridge Turnpike, Concord, Massachusetts
Visit the official Ralph Waldo Emerson website, which includes information about his homes, and The Trustees website for "The Old Manse".
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Salem, Massachusetts
The Berkshires, Massachusetts
The Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts
Lenox, Massachusetts
Louisa May Alcott
The Wayside, Concord, Massachusetts
Orchard House, 399 Lexington Road, Concord, Massachusetts
See the official Louisa May Alcott "Orchard House" website.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Edgar Allan Poe
Herman Melville
Arrowhead, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Cambridge, Massachusetts
35 Tremont Row, Boston, Massachusetts
8 Montgomery Place, Boston
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Henry David Thoreau
Wheeler-Minot Farmhouse, 341 Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts
Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts
Learn about the Walden Woods Project here or more from The Thoreau Society.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada
Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
"Journey's End", on the Humber River, Swansea, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Learn more about LM Montgomery from the L.M. Montgomery Institute, the Prince Edward Island government site. the L. M. Montgomery Literary Society, and the Leaskdale Manse Museum.
Walt Whitman
West Hills, Huntington, Long Island, New York
New York City, New York
Camden, New Jersey
Visit the official Walt Whitman Birthplace Historic Site and the Camden House Historic Site.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
599 Summit Avenue, Cathedral Hill, St. Paul, Minnesota
Syracuse and Buffalo, New York
1935 Lexington Avenue, New York City
Paris, France
"La Paix", Towson, Maryland
North Hayworth Ave and North Laurel Ave, Hollywood, California
Learn more about the F. Scott Fitzgerald House, also known as Summit Terrace, in Saint Paul.
Edith Wharton
New York, New York
58 Rue de Varenne, Paris, France
The Mount, Lenox, Massachusetts
Le Pavillon Colombe, Rue de Montmorency, Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France
Castel Sainte-Claire, Hyères, Provence, France
Visit the official website for "The Mount".
Henry James
New York, New York
Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna and Bonn
Lamb House, Rye, East Sussex, England
Mark Twain aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Florida, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri
New York City, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Cincinnati
San Francisco, California
Buffalo, New York
Hartford, Connecticut
Redding, Connecticut
Learn about the Mark Twain House and Museum on Wikipedia, and from the official site.
Ernest Hemingway
200 North Oak Park Ave, Oak Park, Chicago, Illinois
Windemere, Walloon Lake, near Petoskey, Michigan
Italy, France and Spain
Toronto, Canada
Africa
907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Florida
Finca Vigia, Cuba
Pfeiffer House, Piggott, Arkansas
Ketchum, Idaho
Learn more from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, the Pfeiffer House, and the Ernest Hemingway House in Key West.
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