Three Story House: A Novel

Few can read Howards End without longing for a golden afternoon in the garden of an English cottage.

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The house represents the England of the past, threatened by a modern world in motion where motorcars speed people through a landscape they have no time to appreciate. He was very clear about the inspiration for the house of his eponymous novel — Rooks Nest, his childhood home. After his father died of tuberculosis, when Forster was not quite two, his mother decided it would be healthier to move to the country. In she took the lease on Rooks Nest, near Stevenage in Hertfordshire, where they lived for the next 10 years. The house had belonged to a family named Howard, who had farmed there for three centuries.

Forster began memorialising it while still in his teens. For Woolf, Talland House represented a childhood idyll that would inspire her throughout her life. In her father, the eminent critic and biographer Leslie Stephen, had discovered Talland House in St Ives on one of his many walking expeditions. It was a three-storey detached house on a hill overlooking Porthminster Beach, with Godrevy lighthouse visible in the distance. From July to September each year, Stephen installed his large family in it with an array of guests there.

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The children made a sport of looking out towards the railway station from the front garden, to spy their visitors arriving: Her half-sister Stella Duckworth died in and her brother Thoby in In To the Lighthouse , Woolf made a lengthy imaginative visit to the Talland House of her childhood, where the ghosts of her parents and siblings reappear.

The inspiration for Manderley was an obsession born of frustration. Du Maurier had coveted Menabilly House in Cornwall for decades before she was able to live there. And it was in the years of pining for it that she created the enigmatic mansion at the centre of Rebecca The physical description of the De Winter seat was, in fact, drawn from Milton Hall, near Peterborough, which Du Maurier had visited as a child during the first world war. The author first came across Menabilly during a family visit to the Cornish coastal town of Fowey in Menabilly had been owned by the Rashleigh family since , and was largely transformed in the early 18th century.

Like its fictional counterpart, the house is set well back into the woods. Her first attempt to visit the house was during an illicit ramble with her sister, Angela.

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As in the opening of the novel, the walk up that twisting path felt endless: It took another year before Du Maurier made it through the woods and found the house abandoned, in a state of broken glory: Abney Hall in Cheshire was a special favourite of young Agatha: On this note, Christie was also fairly vague. For example, Endless Night features a glamorous newly built house that fulfils the dreams of the low-born narrator. Christie would have had an awareness of avant-garde modernist design, particularly from the Lawn Road flats in Hampstead now known as the Isokon building , where she and her second husband, Max Mallowan , went to live after their house at Sheffield Terrace was destroyed by bombing in Metroland embodies a significant cultural and social moment in postwar community development.

But his description of suburban life , delivered from the yawning lips of a middle-class teenager, captures the angst of outer city residential tracts. But in fact that never came to pass.

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