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Wednesday 8 November 2017

NAME THAT WRITER!!!!

Some writers' homes and their writing desks, I have visited over the years.
  Two of the writers were very close friends. One picture shows a place connected with a particular writer but it is really connected to two writers, brother and sister. There is a picture of a house connected to a family of writers. Three of the pictures were not taken in Britain. Two of the writers were not British.Another is of a house belonging to a soldier, artist, writer and politician; he was a master at all those occupations.


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The answers for those who desperately need to know!!!!!!!!!

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  1.  Rudyard Kipling's writing desk in his country house, Batemans.
  2. The attic in Gough Square where Samuel Johnson compiled and wrote his dictionary.
  3. Dove Cottage in the Lake District where William and Dorothy Wordsworth lived.
  4. The shed in Laugharne where Dylan Thomas wrote. He lived nearby with his family in the boathouse.
  5. The monastic cell at Valdemosa, where Georg Sands lived with Chopin for a year on Mallorca.
  6. Jane Austen's writing table at Chawton Cottage.
  7. Robert Graves writing desk in his house in Gaia on Mallorca.
  8. Charles Dickens' Swiss Cottage, in Rochester. He was writing Edwin Drood inside on the morning of his death.
  9. The parsonage in Haworth where the Brontë sisters and their brother Branwell lived.
  10. The apartment in Paris where Victor Hugo lived for a while.
  11. Chartwell, the country home of Winston Churchill.
  12. The library at Sissinghurst, the home of Vita Sackville West.
  13. The desk in the garden shed at Rodmell where Virginia Woolf wrote.


















2 comments:

  1. Tony, I'm pitiful. I only got two. Maybe if I had been able to spend more time thinking about it, I might have gotten two or three more. The two I knew, I knew immediately - Jane and the Brontes.

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    1. Ha! Ha! Thanks for having a go. The article is meant to be informative as well as a challenge. Have a great day, Tony

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