literary houses

A blue plaque marks the family home of author J. R. R. Tolkien from 1930 to 1947, at 20 Northmoor Road in Oxford. Here Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and the first two volumes of The Lord of the Rings.

Jane Austen lived in this townhouse at 4 Sydney Place with her family from 1801 to 1805.

Jane Austen lived at Chawton Cottage in Hampshire during the happiest and most productive period of her life, from 1809 to 1817.

The Anna Sewell House in Old Catton is a Grade II listed building constructed in the 18th century. It was the home of its namesake, the author of Black Beauty (which was written here), for the last 10 years of her life, 1867-1878.

The childhood home of author Willa Cather from 1884 to 1890.

Terraced house. c1807-9. Darkened stock brick with slate mansard roof and dormer. Plain stucco 1st floor sill band. 3 storeys, attic and basement. 3 windows.

Allan Stevenson, 1900. Single storey and attic, 10-bay asymmetrical-plan museum. Painted harl. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced blank gabled bay to outer left; timber colonnade to right.

The Kilns was the home of C.S. Lewis for over 30 years. A group of children were evacuated from London to the Kilns in 1939, inspiring the Chronicles of Narnia books.

Hemingway spent his boyhood summers from 1904 to 1921 in this one-story frame structure called Windemere.