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