"most of her novels in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire, his fictional English county developed in the six novels known as the ""Chronicles of Barsetshire"". An alert reader of contemporary fiction, Thirkell also borrowed freely from such now-arcane titles as John Galsworthy's ""The Country House"", from which, for example, she lifted the name 'Worsted' which she used for the village setting of her novel ""August Folly"" (1936). She also quoted frequently, and without attribution, from novels by Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and Elizabeth Gaskell. Thirkell published a new novel every year, which she referred to in correspondence with her editor, Jamie Hamilton"
"for a series of 29 novels by Angela Thirkell, written from 1930 to 1961. Thirkell's stories blend social satire with romance. Her 1946 novel, ""Private Enterprise"", explored discontent with the bureaucracy of the Attlee government – something echoed by Orville Prescott in his poem-review beginning ""In Barchester all is not well"". Barsetshire is also used in some of the Pullein-Thompson sisters books, usually referring to rival teams or as a nearby county. Barchester and Barset were used as names for the fictional county in which St Trinians School was supposedly located in the original films. The county is also mentioned"
"best-loved works are set in the imaginary west country county of Barsetshire, including ""The Warden"" (1855) and ""Barchester Towers"" (1857). Trollope's novels portray the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans (1819–80) was a major novelist of the mid-Victorian period. Her works, especially ""Middlemarch"" 1871-2), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail, with an intellectual breadth that removes them from the narrow geographic confines they often depict, that has led to comparisons with Tolstoy. George Meredith (1828–1909) is best remembered for"
"""The Shakespeare Stealer"", a 1998 young adult novel by Gary Blackwood, is from Barwick-in-Elmet. There are other villages in England called Barwick in Norfolk and Somerset, and a suburb of Stockton-on-Tees is called Ingleby Barwick. There is a town called Barwick in Georgia in the USA. Barwick lies in the LS15 postcode area. Here is a population breakdown of the postcode area in comparison with the UK population. <br> Barwick-in-Elmet Barwick-in-Elmet (pronounced ""Barrick-in-Elmet"") is a village in West Yorkshire, east of Leeds city centre. It is one of only three places in the area to be explicitly associated with the"
"Helen Titchener in the programme. Borsetshire Borsetshire is a fictional county in the BBC Radio 4 series ""The Archers"". Its county town is the equally fictional Borchester. The county is supposedly set between Worcestershire and Warwickshire, but is also intended as a generic West Midlands rural county. Its name also echoes Anthony Trollope's fictional Barsetshire and the real Dorsetshire. Other places in the county include Ambridge, where ""The Archers"" is mainly set, Lower Loxley, a nearby village and Felpersham, a cathedral city which appears to be larger than Borchester. Ambridge is on the B3980 six miles south of Borchester and"
"Borsetshire Borsetshire is a fictional county in the BBC Radio 4 series ""The Archers"". Its county town is the equally fictional Borchester. The county is supposedly set between Worcestershire and Warwickshire, but is also intended as a generic West Midlands rural county. Its name also echoes Anthony Trollope's fictional Barsetshire and the real Dorsetshire. Other places in the county include Ambridge, where ""The Archers"" is mainly set, Lower Loxley, a nearby village and Felpersham, a cathedral city which appears to be larger than Borchester. Ambridge is on the B3980 six miles south of Borchester and seventeen miles west of Felpersham."
"works are set in the imaginary county of Barsetshire, including ""The Warden"" (1855) and ""Barchester Towers"" (1857). He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters, including ""The Way with Live Now"" (1875). Trollope's novels portrayed the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. George Eliot's (Mary Ann Evans (1819–80) first novel ""Adam Bede"" was published in 1859. Her works, especially ""Middlemarch"" 1871–72), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail combined with an intellectual breadth that removes them from"
"to get closer to her bones. Dorset is famed in English literature for being the native county of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), and many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset, which he renamed ""South Wessex"". The National Trust owns Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in woodland east of Dorchester, and Max Gate, his former house in Dorchester, Dorset. Several other writers have been influenced by the Dorset landscape, including P. D. James whose novel ""The Black Tower"" was inspired by Clavell Tower in Kimmeridge; and Enid Blyton who spent many holidays"
"situated in Derbyshire. In that novel, Chatsworth House in Derbyshire is named as one of the estates Elizabeth Bennet visits before arriving at Pemberley. In the 2005 film adaptation of the novel, Chatsworth House itself represents Pemberley. In one scene characters discuss visits to Matlock and Dovedale. Sir Walter Scott's 1823 novel ""Peveril of the Peak"" is partly set in Derbyshire. The events of the play ""Arcadia"", by Tom Stoppard, take place in the fictional country house of Sidley Park in Derbyshire. Alfreton is mentioned in the novel ""Sons and Lovers"" by D. H. Lawrence, when a character gets a"
"(in Trollope's own words) ""a little bit of England which I have myself created"". In ""Doctor Thorne"" Trollope describes how the county, formerly represented by a single parliamentary constituency, was split into two constituencies, the more rural East Barsetshire, which includes Barchester, and the more commercial West Barsetshire, by the Reform Act 1832. The borough of Silverbridge, according to the Palliser novels, also elects a Member of Parliament. The novel ""Barchester Pilgrimage"" (1935), and some of the episodes in ""Let Dons Delight"" (1939), both by Ronald Knox, refer to Barsetshire and its inhabitants. Barsetshire was also used as the setting"
"The Barchester Chronicles The Barchester Chronicles is a 1982 British television serial produced by the BBC. It is an adaptation of Anthony Trollope's first two Chronicles of Barsetshire, ""The Warden"" and ""Barchester Towers"". The series was directed by David Giles. Location work was filmed in and around Peterborough Cathedral, using locations such as the Deanery and Laurel Court. The sleepy community of Barchester is stirred up when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report. The series won a BAFTA award for Design (Chris Pemsel) in 1982, also being nominated for Drama Series/Serial (Jonathan Powell, David Giles),"
"even though the appropriation of images of rural England for patriotic purposes made her ""almost ashamed of England being so English"", she and her husband had nevertheless been enchanted by the Dorset landscape in spring. It is possible that the name of the fictional village ""Bolney Minster"" in Woolf's novel ""Between the Acts"" was partly inspired by Iwerne. A pre-Norman conquest Iwerne Minster is imagined, along with neighbouring village Shroton, in Julian Rathbone's 1997 novel ""The Last English King"". Iwerne Minster Iwerne Minster () is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies on the"
"in Michael Innes's ""Appleby and Honeybath"" where it is suggested that ""the shifting of county boundaries has pretty well done away with Barsetshire"" (p 27). Barchester is used as a railway station and location for some of the 1942 Ealing Studios film ""The Black Sheep of Whitehall"". Barchester Cathedral was used as the setting for the ghost story """" by M. R. James in his 1911 collection ""More Ghost Stories"". It is also the setting for Charlie Lovett's 2017 literary mystery ""The Lost Book of the Grail; or, A Visitor's Guide to Barchester Cathedral"". William Golding refers to Barchester and"
"Borchester Borchester is a fictional town in the BBC Radio 4 radio series ""The Archers"". It is the county town of the fictional county of Borsetshire. According to series tradition it is located 6 miles north-east of Ambridge in the Am Vale and is an historic market and wool town. These typically English country-town features are complemented by more modern additions, such as Underwoods (an upmarket department store), Jaxx bar, which was previously a café both managed by Kenton Archer, and Ambridge Organics, the shop run by Helen Archer, who also makes the Borsetshire Blue cheese sold in Underwoods. As"
"constituted a liberty by itself. Owermoigne village is described as Nether Moynton in the fictional Wessex of Thomas Hardy's novels and his short story ""The Distracted Preacher"" in Wessex Tales takes place in the village. Owermoigne Owermoigne () is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England, situated south-east of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 467. The parish is within an electoral ward with the same name, which stretches from the east side of the small coastal village of Ringstead north towards Owermoigne and then up to, but not"
"the Galaxy"" while he lived in Stalbridge; John le Carré, author of espionage novels, was born in Poole; Tom Sharpe of ""Wilt"" fame lived in Bridport; John Fowles (""The French Lieutenant's Woman"") lived in Lyme Regis before he died in late 2005; T.F. Powys lived in Chaldon Herring for over 20 years and used it as inspiration for the fictitious village of Folly Down in his novel ""Mr. Weston's Good Wine""; John Cowper Powys, his elder brother, also set a number of his works in Dorset, such as the novels ""Maiden Castle"" and ""Weymouth Sands"". The 19th-century poet William Barnes"
"interest. Such a setting enhanced the plot as the drama unfolded away from the functioning world where the children could solve their own problems and face greater danger. Moorland in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire is the setting for Walter Bennett's ""The Pendle Witches"", the true story of some of England's most infamous witch trials. In Erin Hunter's ""Warriors"" series, one of the four Clans, WindClan, lives in the moorland alone. Michael Jecks, author of Knights Templar Mysteries, sets his books in and around Dartmoor, England. Paul Kingsnorth’s ""Beast"" is also set on a western English moor, using the"
"book and an audiobook. Blackberry Wine Blackberry wine is a magical realism novel by Joanne Harris, published in 2000. It is set half in Yorkshire and half in the fictional village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the setting of Harris' ""Chocolat"". The book relies on Harris' typical split-narrative technique, and follows two separate timelines, one set in present-day France, one set in Yorkshire twenty years ago, during a pivotal time in the protagonist's life. Unusually, the US and the UK versions of this book are significantly different, with the US version written entirely in the third person, but the UK version (which precedes"
"the surrounding county are settings for several Graham Joyce novels, including ""Dark Sister"", ""The Limits of Enchantment"" and ""Some Kind of Fairy Tale"". The Clarendon Park and New Walk areas of the city, along with an unnamed Charnwood village (""vaguely based upon Cossington"", according to the author) are some of the settings of the 2014 novel ""The Knot of Isis"" by Chrid McGordon. Leicester is the setting for the British children book series, The Sleepover Club, by authors Rose Impey, Narinder Dhami, Lorna Read, Fiona Cummings, Louis Catt, Sue Mongredien, Angie Bates, Ginny Deals, Harriet Castor and Jana Novotny Hunter."
"overlooking Newmilns in East Ayrshire. Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novel ""Guy Mannering"" features a ""Justice Tree"" at the Castle of Ellangowan. The corpses of murderers were gibbeted and eventually buried at crossroads so that their spirits would be ""bound"" there. The living took pains to prevent the dead from wandering the land as lost souls – or even as animated corpses, for the belief in revenants was widespread in mediæval Europe. ""Weir of Hermiston"", an unfinished novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, makes reference to a dule-tree. ""The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral"", a ghost story by M.R. James, tells what became"
"person), and ""Ring for Jeeves"" (which features Jeeves but not Bertie Wooster and is written in the third person). The short stories are set primarily in London, where Bertie Wooster has a flat and is a member of the raucous Drones Club, or in New York City, though some short stories are set around various stately homes in the English countryside. The novels all take place at or near an English country house, most commonly Brinkley Court (in four novels) and Totleigh Towers (in two novels). The setting is primariy an idealised version of England during the interwar period, though"
"Potter at his printworks in Dinting Vale. She copied cloth samples from his pattern book to dress her characters. Mrs Tiggywinkle's shawl, in The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, is based on pattern number 222714. Children's author Alison Uttley (1884–1976) was born at Cromford; her novel ""A Traveller in Time"", set in Dethick, recounts the Babington Plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots, from imprisonment. Crichton Porteous (1901–91) set several books in locations in the Peak; ""Toad Hole"", ""Lucky Columbell"" and ""Broken River"" are set in the Derwent Valley. Geraldine Brooks's first novel, ""Year of Wonders"" (2001), blends fact and fiction"
"Menston. Born in Menston were: Smith Wigglesworth, a notable early Pentecostal preacher (1859); Eric Knight, the author who created the fictional collie, Lassie (1897); Annie Margaret Barr, a Unitarian minister and founder of the Kharang Rural Centre in the Khasi Hills, North East India (1899); and actor Sam Riley (1980). <br> Menston Menston is a village and civil parish in the county of West Yorkshire, England. Along with Burley in Wharfedale, part of Menston is within Wharfedale Ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford. The remainder of Menston is in the Leeds City Council area. As of"
"of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. Two of his novels, ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" and ""Far from the Madding Crowd"", were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 in Higher Bockhampton (then Upper Bockhampton), a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, England, where his father Thomas (1811–1892) worked as a stonemason and local builder, and married his mother Jemima (née Hand; 1813–1904) in Beaminster, towards the end of 1839. Jemima"
"England), but includes Barsetshire and Yoknapatawpha County, which are evidently considered to be sufficiently fictionalized. The emphasis is on science fiction and fantasy, though Post suggests there exist enough mystery fiction maps to someday create ""The Detectives' Handy Pocket Atlas"". Other maps were omitted due to permission costs or reproduction quality. The maps are reproduced from many sources, and an Index of Artists is included. An Atlas of Fantasy An Atlas of Fantasy, compiled by Jeremiah Benjamin Post, was originally published in 1973 by Mirage Press and revised for a 1979 edition by Ballantine Books. The 1979 edition dropped twelve"
"Kensal Green Cemetery, near the grave of his contemporary, Wilkie Collins. Trollope's first major success came with ""The Warden"" (1855)—the first of six novels set in the fictional county of ""Barsetshire"" (often collectively referred to as the ""Chronicles of Barsetshire""), dealing primarily with the clergy and landed gentry. ""Barchester Towers"" (1857) has probably become the best-known of these. Trollope's other major series, the Palliser novels, which overlap with the Barsetshire novels, concerned itself with politics, with the wealthy, industrious Plantagenet Palliser (later Duke of Omnium) and his delightfully spontaneous, even richer wife Lady Glencora featured prominently, though, as with the"
"her producer husband Nigel Stonier also reside in Cheshire. The county has also been home to several writers, including Hall Caine (1853–1931), popular romantic novelist and playwright; Alan Garner; Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell, whose novel ""Cranford"" features her home town of Knutsford; and most famously Lewis Carroll, born and raised in Daresbury, hence the Cheshire Cat (a fictional cat popularised by Carroll in ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"" and known for its distinctive mischievous grin). Artists from the county include ceramic artist Emma Bossons and sculptor and photographer Andy Goldsworthy. Actors from Cheshire include Tim Curry; Daniel Craig, the 6th James"
"in Dorset, eventually moving to the Isle of Purbeck with her second husband. Many locations in her books were drawn from this area including Kirrin Castle (Corfe Castle) and Whispering Island (Brownsea). Studland was the inspiration for Noddy's Toyland and P.C. Plod is thought to have been based on the then local policeman, Christopher Rone. William Barnes was born in the Blackmore Vale in 1801 and three volumes of his poetry in the Dorset dialect were published, the first, ""Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect"" was published in 1844. Barnes hated what he deemed 'foreign' words and avoided"
"Amongst the most noted novels credited to the sisters are Anne's ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"", Charlotte's ""Jane Eyre"" and Emily's ""Wuthering Heights"". Ted Hughes wrote two collections that show his love for Yorkshire: ""Remains of Elmet"" (1979) and ""Elmet"" (1994), in which the ghost of Emily Brontë still haunts the moor. In the present day, the most prominent Yorkshire presences in English literature are the playwright, author, actor, screenwriter and commentator Alan Bennett, born 1934 in Leeds, where much of his work is set, and the poet, playwright and screenwriter Tony Harrison, born three years later in the same"
"claims to be England's oldest public house, and to be recorded in the ""Domesday Book"", although these claims are disputed. Bardsey railway station on the Cross Gates–Wetherby line opened in 1876 and closed in 1964. Bardsey is the birthplace of playwright and poet William Congreve. <br> Bardsey, West Yorkshire Bardsey, West Yorkshire, England is a small village in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, north east of Leeds city centre. The village is in the LS17 Leeds postcode district. It is part of the civil parish of Bardsey cum Rigton. The village itself lies just off the A58 road between"
"Blackberry Wine Blackberry wine is a magical realism novel by Joanne Harris, published in 2000. It is set half in Yorkshire and half in the fictional village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the setting of Harris' ""Chocolat"". The book relies on Harris' typical split-narrative technique, and follows two separate timelines, one set in present-day France, one set in Yorkshire twenty years ago, during a pivotal time in the protagonist's life. Unusually, the US and the UK versions of this book are significantly different, with the US version written entirely in the third person, but the UK version (which precedes it) written from the"
"Ness's review in ""The Guardian"" described the book as ""phenomenally good"" despite it being a ""838-page epic with little describable plot, taking place over just a few days and set in...Ashford"" Nicola Barker Nicola Barker (born 30 March 1966) is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England. When she was still young her parents left England and settled in South Africa. Typically she writes about damaged or eccentric people in mundane situations, and has a fondness for bleak, isolated settings. ""Wide Open"" and ""Behindlings"" are set respectively on the Isle of Sheppey and"
"books for their well-researched historical backgrounds, strong stories and colourful personalities. Her novel ""The Mad Miller of Wareham"" is set in King John's time in Dorset and concerns a plot to put Arthur of Brittany on the throne. The towns, villages, abbeys and priories of Dorset, where the tale is set, are creditably brought to light and more than one of the characters is drawn in the round and exists as a person. The novel ""To Capture the King"", concerns a Jacobite plot and smuggling on the Sussex coast, with incidental glimpses of Samuel Johnson and Horace Walpole.The texture of"