Which author lived at 'Chawton'?
"single church, St Nicholas. A church has stood on the site in Chawton since at least 1270 when it was mentioned in a diocesan document. The church suffered a disastrous fire in 1871 which destroyed all but the chancel. The rebuilt church was designed by Sir Arthuer Blomfield and is now listed Grade 2*. The churchyard was reserved for burial for the Knight family, and the graves include that of Jane Austen's mother and sister, both called Cassandra. Chawton C of E Primary School is the only school in Chawton. It is within the Diocese of Winchester and accepts children"
"Jane Austen's House Museum Jane Austen's House Museum is a small independent museum in the village of Chawton near Alton in Hampshire. It is a writer's house museum occupying the 17th-century house (informally known as Chawton Cottage) in which novelist Jane Austen spent the last eight years of her life. The museum has been a Grade I listed building since 1963. Previously home to local farmers, the house was briefly a public house, The New Inn, between 1781 and 1787. The pub was the site of two murders, and after the second murder the house was let by Edward Austen"
"centre. The Centre, which runs study programmes in association with the nearby University of Southampton, incorporates a significant library, a collection of over 9000 books and related manuscripts. The house is now open to visitors, as well as library readers, for tours and during public events. It is set in of Hampshire countryside, and is used for conferences, filming and more recently as a venue for weddings. The present Chawton House was built in 1580, principally by John Knight. Based on a manor house owned by the Knight family since 1551, it was subsequently extended and altered about 1655 and"
"Chawton, Austen had written three novels in draft form; these were ""Sense and Sensibility"", ""Pride and Prejudice"" and ""Northanger Abbey"". It is possible that she revised these novels at the house before getting them published. In addition, it was here that she wrote ""Mansfield Park"", ""Emma"" and ""Persuasion"". Following Cassandra's death, the house was divided into small apartments for labourers, before part of the building becoming a workman's club by the dawn of the twentieth century. The remainder of the house was split into cottages for estate workers, and had been known as Petty Johns and Chawton Cottage. The house"
"Chewton Glen Chewton Glen is a five star hotel and spa located on the edge of the New Forest National Park on the South Coast of England. It is a member of the Relais & Châteaux association and is part of the Iconic Luxury Hotels group, which includes Cliveden House, 11 Cadogan Gardens and The Lygon Arms. Historic document suggest that the house was originally built in the eighteenth century, with the first recorded mention of ‘Chewton Glen House’ appearing in 1732. Captain Frederick Marryat stayed here for periods in the 1840s, during which time he was writing the novel"
"Nuneaton Nuneaton () is a town in northern Warwickshire, England. The population in 2011 was 86,552, making it the largest town in Warwickshire. The author George Eliot was born on a farm on the Arbury Estate just outside Nuneaton in 1819 and lived in the town for much of her early life. Her novel ""Scenes of Clerical Life"" (1858) depicts Nuneaton. The Nuneaton built-up area, incorporating Nuneaton and the surrounding urban settlements, including the large villages of Hartshill and Bulkington, had a population of 92,968 at the 2011 census. Nuneaton is north of Coventry, east of Birmingham and northwest of"
"Chawston Chawston is a hamlet in the English county of Bedfordshire. It is in the civil parish of Wyboston, Chawston and Colesden. Chawston is mainly situated on the western side of the A1 trunk road, although the settlement does have a number of residential properties on the eastern side of the A1. Chawston is some 8 miles from Bedford in the west and some 3 miles from St Neots due north east. Chawston was first recorded as a settlement in 1086 as part of the Domesday Book (it is actually recorded as Chauelestorne and Calnestorne). The Chawston manor estate dates"
"children's author Philip Caveney live (or have recently lived) here. Children's author Jo Welch grew up in Heaton Moor and set her first book, ""The Einstein Code"", in the area. The Guardian journalist and feminist Mary Stott and her husband lived here after moving from Leicester. Cecil Kimber, the founder of MG Car Company lived in Heaton Moor, and was a pupil of Stockport Grammar School. Heaton Moor Heaton Moor is a suburb of Stockport, Greater Manchester, England. It is one of the Four Heatons and borders Heaton Chapel, Heaton Norris and Heaton Mersey. Heaton Moor has Victorian housing, built"
"The Scarthwaite Hotel, Caton The Scarthwaite Country House Hotel at Crook O’Lune near Caton in Lancashire is a house of historical significance. It was built in 1858 by Adam Hodgson, a merchant, banker and abolitionist. It was then the home of several notable people over the next century before being converted to a hotel. It still serves as a hotel which provides accommodation, restaurant facilities and caters for special events. Adam Hodgson (1789-1862) built Scarthwaite Country House with his wife Emily in 1858. Their initials are on the front entrance. Adam was born in 1789 in Liverpool. He became a"
"croton plants, which are now in the Herbarium Library, Kew. Although William retired from the paper mills in 1894, the couple did not both return and settle permanently back in England until the beginning of the C20, finally settling in Chalfont St Peter around 1906. They lived in a number of places including Hayes, Middx and Chartridge, near Chesham, Bucks before moving to the house that William had designed at Chalfont Common,Chalfont St Peter. They named it The Whins after the yellow gorse that grew in the neighbourhood. Maud created an extensive perennial garden on the one and half acre"
"wife Rachel Pine Chase Burton. He was pastor of Hartford's Fourth Congregational Church and later Park Church until his death in 1887. After the fire the property remained vacant at least until 1885, when a map of the area shows a building at the site. In the 1880s, the former Nook Farm area was one of Hartford's most desirable new neighborhoods, with a number of nationally prominent writers living within blocks of each other. Mark Twain lived on Farmington Street. Charles Dudley Warner, his coauthor on """", a satirical novel which lent its name to the era, lived nearby. Joseph"
"century, while a room is dedicated to his ""Lives"" and ""The Compleat Angler"". The Izaak Walton Cottage and gardens are open to the public on Sunday afternoons during the summer. Izaak Walton's Cottage The Izaak Walton Cottage is a seventeenth-century timber framed building in Shallowford, Chebsey, Staffordshire, England. It belonged to the writer Izaak Walton, best known for ""The Compleat Angler"". The building is designated grade II, and is managed as a museum. Walton was born in Stafford. After running a business in London, he acquired some property in the Staffordshire countryside. The cottage is near a brook called the"
"& Co, rented the castle between 1916 and 1922. He is buried in a simple grave at St Marks Churchyard next to his wife and mother. The area also has a strong literary connection and was once a centre for Wicca with Gerald Gardner and Dorothy Clutterbuck living in Highcliffe. Captain Frederick Marryat, author of ""The Children of The New Forest"", was a regular visitor to the house on the Chewton estate (now the Chewton Glen Hotel, Spa and Country Club); and the adventure story author Colonel R.W. Campbell, veteran of the Boer and Great wars, was also a local"
"been home to several writers including Jane Austen who lived at Chawton on the edge of the Downs in Hampshire. The Bloomsbury Group often visited Monk's House in Rodmell, the home of Virginia Woolf in the Ouse valley. Alfred, Lord Tennyson had a second home at Aldworth, on Blackdown; geologically part of the Weald, Blackdown lies north of the South Downs but is included in the South Downs National Park. In the introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle's short story collection ""His Last Bow"", Dr. Watson states that Sherlock Holmes has retired to a small farm upon the Downs near Eastbourne."
"Gavin Peacock also lived in Crayford. Ghost story writer, journalist and broadcaster Algernon Blackwood lived in Crayford Manor House between 1871 and 1880 as a child, and the house features in his work 'A Prisoner in Fairyland' as 'Crayfield Manor House'. According to the 2011 census, 84% of the population is White British. Crayford is well known for a different theatre (home of the New Theatre Group) and a greyhound racing track. The theatre was named in honour of Geoffrey Whitworth who played a key part in developing a British tradition of amateur drama and in building political support for"
"Paultons Square Paultons Square is a Georgian terraced garden square in Chelsea, London, SW3. It was built in 1836–40 on the site of a former market garden, land previously owned by Sir Thomas More and Sir John Danvers. The square features a central lawn enclosed by metal railings; the houses surrounding it are listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. The author Gavin Maxwell is a notable former resident of the square – he lived at number 9 from 1961–65 – and it is often visited by admirers of his work. The novelist and short-story writer Jean"
"died childless in 1794, and Owley passed to his widow Catherine, later of White Friars, Canterbury. Mrs Knight was lady of the manor in 1799, when Hasted wrote. When she died in 1812, her husband's estates passed to his adopted son, Edward Austen Knight, brother of novelist Jane Austen, and owner of Chawton House in Hampshire. Some time later, Edward Knight appears to have sold Owley to William Levett of Bodiam. When he died in 1842, Levett owned both the manors of Palstre (where he lived) and Owley. He left Paltre to his elder daughter Sabina and Owley to his"
"Dubose Heyward House The Dubose Heyward House is a historic house at 76 Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Now a wing of a larger house, this modest two-story structure was the home from 1919 to 1924 of author Dubose Heyward (1885–1940), author of ""Porgy"", one of the first works to portray Southern African-Americans in a positive light. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971. The Heyward House is located in the Charleston Historic District, on the east side of Church Street south of Tradd Street. It is a two-story structure, with a tile roof and stuccoed"
"century author of ""The Compleat Angler"", Izaak Walton, whose cottage at nearby Shallowford is now an angling museum, and the 18th century playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was once the local MP. Also, the 1853 Lord Mayor of London, Thomas Sidney, was born in the town. In the early 1900s, the village of Great Haywood near Stafford was home to the wife of famous ""The Lord of the Rings"" author J. R. R. Tolkien. He stayed with his wife, Edith, in her cottage in the village during the winter of 1916, and the surrounding areas were said to be an inspiration"
"and accessible only by local residents. Paultons Square Paultons Square is a Georgian terraced garden square in Chelsea, London, SW3. It was built in 1836–40 on the site of a former market garden, land previously owned by Sir Thomas More and Sir John Danvers. The square features a central lawn enclosed by metal railings; the houses surrounding it are listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England. The author Gavin Maxwell is a notable former resident of the square – he lived at number 9 from 1961–65 – and it is often visited by admirers of his work."
"Craig White, Yorkshire cricketer, lives in Cloughton. It was also the home of the Reverend G P Taylor, author of ""Shadowmancer"" and ""Wormwood"". Craig Hiley, Yorkshire Photographer, lives in Cloughton. Cloughton Cloughton (pronounced ""Cloh-tun"") is a small village and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately north of Scarborough town centre and approximately 200 miles north of London. It has a parish church and two pubs - the ""Blacksmiths Arms"" and the ""Red Lion"". It is home to a large conference centre and hotel called ""Cober Hill"". It has cricket and football pitches."
"2012 Summer Olympics and Gatewood Schools graduate, resides in Eatonton. Dwight York, American cult leader and founder of the Nuwaubian Nation, currently imprisoned at ADX Florence. The city is the birthplace of several noted writers, such as Joel Chandler Harris (journalist and author of the Uncle Remus stories), 19th century poet Louise Prudden Hunt (Mrs. B. W. Hunt), Henry Grady Weaver, author of ""The Mainspring of Human Progress,"" and Alice Walker, author of the novel ""The Color Purple"" and other fiction. S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A fast food restaurant and franchise, is a native of the town. Rick Brewer,"
"then moved to Evesham. It was the birthplace of George Davenport, a notorious highwayman; Abigail Herrick, the mother of Jonathan Swift, author of ""Gulliver's Travels""; former Leicester Tigers and England scrum-half Harry Ellis who attended Bushloe High School; and former Leicester Sound and BBC Radio Leicester presenter, Mark Hayman. Graham Chapman, of Monty Python fame, lived (around 1951/52) in what was then Wigston police station, (the building on the corner of Pullman Road – opposite the swimming baths) during the time that his father was the inspector there. He attended South Wigston Junior School. Author and journalist John Marquis was"
"Chatsworth Estate in St Peter's Churchyard, Edensor. His wife Sarah remained at their house on the Chatsworth Estate until her death in 1871. Joseph Paxton Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect and Member of Parliament, best known for designing the Crystal Palace, and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world. Paxton was born in 1803, the seventh son of a farming family, in Milton Bryan, Bedfordshire. Some references, incorrectly, list his birth year as 1801. This is, as he admitted in later life, a result"
"he would have encountered poet John Clare, whose behaviour became so erratic that he was removed to the asylum in 1837. William Morris, artist, writer and socialist, was born in Walthamstow in 1834, and spent his early years in what was then rural Essex, close to the outlying sections of the forest. Arthur Morrison, ""the English Zola"", lived successively at Chingford, Loughton, and High Beach in the forest, and – particularly in ""To London Town"" – the forest is used as a contrast to the East London deprivation he wrote about. Horace Newte, his contemporary and friend, lived at Loughton"
"Jane Austen moved to a cottage in Chawton, together with her mother, her sister Cassandra, and their friend Martha Lloyd, at the invitation of her brother Edward Austen Knight, on whose estate it lay. Their new house was a late 17th Century brick building with two sitting rooms, five bedrooms, kitchens, garrets, outbuildings, and about of grounds. It had once been an inn, and stood at the junction where the Gosport and Winchester roads met and became the main road to London. The family remained at Chawton Cottage, even after Jane Austen's death in 1817. Martha Lloyd took on many"
"asylum at High Beach 1837–1841. The First World War poet Edward Thomas (1878–1917) also lived at High Beach 1915–1917. The poet George Barker (1913–1991) was born at 116 Forest Road, Loughton. Geoffrey Ainger (1925–2013), who wrote the Christmas carols ""Born in the Night"", ""Mary's Child"", ""Do Shepherds Stand"" and several other hymns, was Methodist minister of Loughton 1958–63. Ralph Russell, foremost Western scholar of Urdu language and literature, lived in Queens Road as a child and attended Staples Road School. T. E. Lawrence bought land at Pole Hill in Chingford after the First World War and constructed a hut and"
"After that, he went to Westminster School and then Oxford. Painter George Morland lived in Freshwater in a structure known as the ""Cabin"" around 1800. British Poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson lived at nearby Farringford House (on the road between Freshwater and Alum Bay). Tennyson lived at Farringford from 1853 until the end of his life in 1892. Tennyson wrote of Farringford: Tennyson rented Farringford in 1853, and then bought it in 1856. He found that there were too many starstruck tourists who pestered him in Farringford, so he moved to ""Aldworth"", a stately home on a hill known as"
"William Caton William Caton (1636–1665) was an early English Quaker itinerant preacher and writer. He was probably a near relation of Margaret Fell. At the age of fourteen he was taken by his father to Swarthmoor, near Ulverston, to be educated by a kinsman who was then tutor to the Fell family; the boy was then sent to a school at Hawkshead. In 1652 George Fox paid his first visit to Swarthmoor Hall, and Caton embraced quakerism. He now refused to study on the ground of its being a worldly occupation, and Margaret Fell employed him at Swarthmore to teach"
"or at all, and that Austen could repurchase the manuscript for the £10 he had paid her and find another publisher. She did not have the resources to buy the copyright back at that time, but was able to purchase it in 1816. Around early 1809 Austen's brother Edward offered his mother and sisters a more settled life – the use of a large cottage in Chawton village that was part of Edward's nearby estate, Chawton House. Jane, Cassandra and their mother moved into Chawton cottage on 7 July 1809. Life was quieter in Chawton than it had been since"
"be inducted as Legend in the Blues Hall of Fame, has been a denizen of Heaton Moor since 1985. Heaton Moor was the birthplace of cricketer Charles Marriott Tennis siblings Liam Broady and Naomi Broady and basketball player John Amaechi are Heaton Moor residents. Kate Richardson-Walsh, captain of Great Britain's 2016 gold medal winning hockey team, grew up in Heaton Moor, where she attended Tithe Barn School and Priestnall School. Ronald Gow, dramatist, was born here. The novelist, broadcaster and working Labour peer, Baroness Bakewell. The crime author Val McDermid and TV screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst (Shameless, Sorted, Clocking Off) and"
"In 1992, through the foundation she shares with Leonard Bosack, she invested money into the restoration of this Hampshire manor house once owned by Jane Austen's brother, Edward Austen Knight. In 2003 it opened as the Centre for the Study of Early Women's Writing, 1600-1830. The Chawton House Library has a collection of over 9,000 books, mainly related to the literary genre of women's writing, and original manuscripts. The Library works in partnership with the University of Southampton, and provides an important resource for the university's MA in 18th Century Study. In 2016 Lerner resigned from the board of trustees"
"and now used for the filming of ""Sherlock"") together with Italian poet and patriot Giovanni Ruffini, his brother Agostino Ruffini and Angelo Usiglio, living there for three years until 1840. On 29 December 1838, Charles Darwin took the let of the furnished property at 12 Upper Gower Street (later 110 Gower Street), and wrote to tell his fiancée Emma Wedgwood of his delight at being the ""possessor of Macaw Cottage"". As their daughter Etty later recalled, ""He used to laugh over the ugliness of their house in Gower St, and the furniture in the drawing-room, which he said combined all"