Visiting famous writers' homes

We have been lucky enough to visit Chawton, Hampshire - home to Jane Austen and it was inspirational. Her garden was beautiful including a patch of medicinal herbs that she would have grown. It showed the small table she worked on in the dining parlour and various other rooms such as the bedroom she shared with her sister Cassandra, the kitchen and personal items such as a prayer she wrote, a lace collar she made and a lock of her own hair. We have over the years visited the homes of the poet Wordsworth - four of his in the Lake District plus John Ruskin's home (he patronised Rossetti) and also Howarth Parsonage, home to the Brontes in Yorkshire. I can add "Lawrence of Arabia's home" in Dorset plus two where Thomas Hardy lived - Maxgate and Higher Brockhampton cottage. All these are in beautiful places and truly inspirational. Have you visited any? It would be interesting to know.

Should I go down the Kindle road

I am reluctant to go down the Kindle road and have my books read in plastic covers, not to mention all the work and expense in using modern technology. And can or does modern technology reveal all the lovely illustrations, pictures, maps that are in beautiful books that I read? I doubt it. If you want to see samples of my work, see my website www.marianbythell.com and read for free!