Writer's home
Writers' homes (sometimes writer's, author's or literary houses) are locations where writers lived. Frequently, these homes are preserved as historic house museums and literary tourism destinations, called writer's home museums, especially when the homes are those of famous literary figures. Frequently these buildings are preserved to communicate to visitors more about the author than their work and its historical context.[1] These exhibits are a form of biographical criticism. Visitors of the sites who are participating in literary tourism, are often fans of the authors, and these fans find deep emotional and physical connections to the authors through their visits.[1]
Sites include a range of activities common to cultural heritage sites, such as living history, museum exhibits, guided tours and poetry readings.[1]New York Times commentator Anne Trubek counted 73 such houses in the United States.[2]
The tradition of preserving houses or sites important to famous authors has a long history: in the 14th century Petrarch's birthplace was preserved, despite Petrach barely spending time there as a child.[2] In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century France, photojournalism which represented authors homes created an increased public interest in writers' private lives, making their homes destinations.[3]
The public popular imagination around these literary homes is a central theme of the satirical novel An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England.[4]
Contents
1 Notable homes
2 See also
3 References
4 Further reading
Notable homes
- Anne Frank House
- Bronte Parsonage Museum
- Bulgakov Museum in Moscow
Melikhovo (Anton Chekhov)
White Dacha (Anton Chekhov)- Jean Cocteau House
Rowan Oak (William Faulkner)
Rozhdestveno Memorial Estate (Vladimir Nabokov)
Tarkhany (Mikhail Lermontov)
Yasnaya Polyana (Leo Tolstoy)
Emily Dickinson Museum[1]
Mark Twain House[1]- Margaret Mitchell House and Museum
- Manning Clark House
- The Mount, Edith Wharton
- Maison de Victor Hugo
Walt Whitman House [2]- Ernest Hemingway Cottage
- Ernest Hemingway House
- Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum
- Osamu Dazai Memorial Museum
Shakespeare's Birthplace[2]- James Thurber House
Monte Cristo Cottage (Eugene O'Neill)
Green Hills Farm (Pearl S. Buck)- World of James Herriot
- Charles Dickens Museum
Dr Johnson's House (Samuel Johnson)- Jane Austen's House Museum
Highbury (Patrick White)
Hill Top (Beatrix Potter)
See also
- Category:Literary museums
- Mozart's birthplace
References
^ abcde "Visitors can learn much from famous writers' houses - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2015-11-18..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ abcd Trubek, Anne (2010-10-15). "Read My Book? Tour My House". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
^ Emery, Elizabeth (2012-01-01). Photojournalism and the Origins of the French Writer House Museum (1881-1914): Privacy, Publicity, and Personality. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9781409408772.
^ Maslin, Janet (2007-09-10). "Burn Down a Poet's House, and the Mail Just Pours In". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
Further reading
Bernard, April. "Here's What I Hate About Writers' Houses". NYRblog. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
Channer, Nick (2015-04-30). Writers' Houses: Where Great Books Began. Robert Hale Limited. ISBN 9780719806643.
"The Irrational Allure of Writers' Houses*". Literary Traveler. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
Hendrix, Harald (2012-08-06). Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory. Routledge. ISBN 9781135908058.
Marsh, Kate (1993-01-01). Writers and their houses: a guide to the writers' houses of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland : essays. Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 9780241127698.
Trubek, Anne (2011-07-11). A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812205812.
