Historic houses · South East England
UK literary landmarks & writers' houses
Twelve homes and locations of Britain's great writers.
Britain's literary heritage is dense and visitable. Wordsworth at Dove Cottage, the Brontës at Haworth Parsonage, Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon, Beatrix Potter at Hill Top, Jane Austen at Chawton, Hardy in Dorchester, Dickens in London — all the major writers have curated houses open as small museums. This twelve-stop tour reads as a chronological literary history of England.
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