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.
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Italy1. George Sand 2. Henry James 3. Thomas Mann4. Ernest Hemingway5. John Keats6. E.M. Forster
Southern England7. Jane Austen 8. Thomas Hardy 9. H.G. Wells 10. Vita Sackville-West
Northern England & North Wales11. William Wordsworth 12. Charlotte Brontë 13. Beatrix Potter 14. Ted Hughes 15. Noël Coward
London16. Samuel Johnson 17. Charles Dickens 18. Oscar Wilde 19. Rudyard Kipling
Oxford20. Lewis Carroll 21. J.R.R. Tolkien 22. William Morris
Edinburgh23. Robert Louis Stevenson24. J.K. Rowling
Channel Islands25. Victor Hugo26. Mervyn Peake
Paris27. Marcel Proust28. James Joyce 29. Erich Maria Remarque 30. Jean-Paul Sartre
Berlin31. Bertolt Brecht32. Christopher Isherwood
New York & New Orleans33. Damon Runyon34. Dorothy Parker 35. Dylan Thomas 36. Arthur Miller 37. Jack Kerouac 38. Tennessee Williams 39. Truman Capote
St Petersburg40. Alexander Pushkin 41. Fyodor Dostoyevsky 42. Mikhail Bulgakov
East Asia43. Lafcadio Hearn 44. George Bernard Shaw 45. Somerset Maugham 46. Graham Greene
North Africa47. Olivia Manning 48. Paul Bowles 49. William S. Burroughs
50. Postscript: Virginia Woolf
