#TopTenTuesday Authors’ Homes I’d Have Loved To Live In

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Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want. Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists. Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Places In Books I’d Love to Live. Forget fictional places, here are some authors’ houses I’d have loved to live in. Follow the links to view more pictures, find out about the history of the houses or, where they are open to the public – in normal times, that is – plan your visit. 

Daphne du Maurier – Ferryside, Bodinnick, Cornwall 
Agatha Christie – Greenway, Devon 
Jane Austen – Chawton, Alton, Hampshire 
Thomas Hardy – Max Gate, Dorchester, Dorset 
Henry James – Lamb House, Rye, East Sussex 
Ian Fleming – GoldenEye, Oracabessa Bay, Jamaica 
Noel Coward – Firefly, Ocho Rios, Jamaica
Sir Walter Scott – Abbotsford, Melrose, Scotland 
Virginia Woolf – Monk’s House, Lewes, East Sussex 

And last, but definitely not least…

John Buchan – Elsfield Manor, Oxfordshire – because just look at that library!

Ferryside
Greenway

 

 

17 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday Authors’ Homes I’d Have Loved To Live In”

    1. I’m going to make you jealous now because not only have I visited Jamaica but while I was there I took an excursion to Firefly and was able to look around Noel Coward’s home.

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  5. Such a wonderful idea, and so much more plausible! Definitely yes to the homes of Christie, Maurier, Austen and Scott. The rest, I’ll have to check out their residences — thanks for including the links! ~Lex

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  7. What a great take on this week’s top ten, Cathy. I googled Firefly Estate and oh yes, I would love to spend time there, but of course Elsfield Manor looks amazing as well.

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