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This one is for all you English literary/old-house lovers. You can now stay in the very home where famed author Jane Austen once lived with her family! Jane Austen 1775 - 1817 Located in the city of Bath, England, this 17th-century row house was inhabited by Jane Austen from 1801 to 1805. It was... Continue Reading →
Known colloquially as "Collete", the French writer, dancer, and beauty salon owner was known as one of the most liberated women of her time. This old house museum in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, in Burgundy, France is Colette's birthplace and the home where she spent the first 18 formative years of her life. This is the place where... Continue Reading →
For a remarkable 76 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty lived here. Built in 1925, Welty's Tudor Revival house has been a National Historic Landmark since 2004 Eudora Alice Welty (April 13, 1909 – July 23, 2001) was an American short story writer, novelist, and photographer, who is most famous for writing about the American... Continue Reading →
This is the Brooklyn, New York home where author Truman Capote lived when he wrote his critically acclaimed books Breakfast At Tiffany's and In Cold Blood. The eccentric author (pictured above) only rented the basement flat in this 3-story home, but the entire house has become known as the Truman Capote house. "I live in Brooklyn. By... Continue Reading →
Andalusia is the lyrical name of American author Flannery O'Connor's former Georgia estate. The rural farm is located in Baldwin County, Georgia, outside of the town of Milledgeville. The white plantation house is where O'Connor wrote some of her last and best-known fiction Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist and... Continue Reading →
House Crazy Sarah's all-time favorite author is Canadian original Margaret Laurence. Margaret Laurence 1926 - 1987 House Crazy Sarah has long been enthralled with Margaret's series of poignant novels about the small town of Manawaka in rural Manitoba. The Stone Angel was Margaret's critically acclaimed novel about an aging woman set in the fictional Manawaka.... Continue Reading →
House Crazy Sarah would be remiss if she didn't do a feature on Monk's House - Virginia Woof's former English country home and gardens. There's something special in common about early twentieth century female writers: they had to have their bucolic county escapes - Beatrix Potter, Edna St. Vincent Millay. Virginia Woolf was part of... Continue Reading →
Heart, have no pity on this house of bone: Shake it with dancing, break it down with joy. No man holds mortgage on it; it is your own; To give, to sell at auction, to destroy. ~ Sonnet 29 from Fatal Interview Those four lines of poetry are the best ever written, in House Crazy... Continue Reading →
House Crazy Sarah is obsessed with writer's houses. And they don't have to be big fancy ones either. In fact, her favorite kind are the tiny cottages where writers hole up in smoky stupors creating works of genius, like this cozy studio once owned by the famed American author John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath).... Continue Reading →
