TY - BOOK AU - Mourby, Adrian TI - ROOMS OF ONE'S OWN: 50 Places That Made Literary History SN - 9781785781858 U1 - 910.2 PY - 2017////01/01 CY - UK PB - Icon Books KW - Travels KW - Travels--Authors KW - Literary landmarks KW - Literature, Modern -- History and criticism KW - Literature, Modern N1 - Writers’ relationships with their surroundings are seldom straightforward. While some, like Jane Austen and Thomas Mann, wrote novels set where they were staying (Lyme Regis and Venice respectively), Victor Hugo penned Les Misérables in an attic in Guernsey and Noël Coward wrote that most English of plays, Blithe Spirit, in the Welsh holiday village of Portmeirion. Award-winning BBC drama producer Adrian Mourby follows his literary heroes around the world, exploring 50 places where great works of literature first saw the light of day. At each destination – from the Brontës’ Yorkshire Moors to the New York of Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin to the now-legendary Edinburgh café where J.K. Rowling plotted Harry Potter’s first adventures – Mourby explains what the writer was doing there and describes what the visitor can find today of that great moment in literature. Rooms of One’s Own takes you on a literary journey from the British Isles to Paris, Berlin, New Orleans, New York and Bangkok and unearths the real-life places behind our best-loved works of literature. Visit the historic places where great works of literature were written; Contents Introduction Italy 1.George Sand 2.Henry James 3.Thomas Mann 4.Ernest Hemingway 5.John Keats 6.E.M.Forster Southern England 7.Jane Austen 8.Thomas Hardy 9.H.G.Wells 10.Vita Sackville-West Northern England & North Wales 11.William Wordsworth 12.Charlotte Bronte 13.Beatrix Potter 14.Ted Hughes 15.Noel Coward London 16.Samuel Johnson 17.Charles Dickens 18.Oscar Wilds 19.Rudyard Kipling Oxford 20.Lewis Carroll 21.J.R.R.Rowling Channel Island 25.Victor Hugo 26.Mervyn Peake Paris 27.Marcel Proust 28.James Joyce 29.Erich Maria Remarque 30.Jean-Paul Sartre Berlin 31.Bertolt Brecht 32.Christopher Isherwood New York & New Orleans 33.Damon Runyon 34.Dorothy Parker 35.Dylan Thomas 36.Arthur Miller 37.Jack Kerouac 38.Tennessee Williams 39.Truman Capote St.Petersburg 40.Alexander Pushkin 41.Fyodo Dostoyevsky 42.Mikhail Bulgakov East Asia 43.Lafcadio Hearn 44.George Bernard shaw 45.Somerse Maugham 46.Graham Greene North Africa 47.Olivia Manning 48.Paul Bowles 49.William . S. Burroughs 50.Postscript : Virginia Woolf ER -