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Five memorable homes in literature (It was originally 6, I edited one out because it was stupid)

  


The March Family Home



The March family home in 'Little Women' by Louisa May Alcott was inspired by the real Alcott family home, Orchard House, which still exists today, as a historic house museum in Concord, Massachusetts. The author moved more than 20 times throughout her life, living both in the bustling city of Boston and on a remote utopian commune in the town of Harvard. The house was even recreated for the film adaptation of the novel, directed by Greta Gerwig.

 

Jay Gatsby's Mansion



F. Scott Fitzgerald, in 'The Great Gatsby' calls the property a “colossal affair” that “was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.” Historians believe that the demolished Beacon Towers mansion in Sands Point, Long Island, was the inspiration for Gatsby’s home. In fact, when the novel was turned into a movie in 2013, set designers drew inspiration from a 1928 Colonial-style castle in Long Island, New York. Interestingly, the 14,551-square-foot house went on sale for $85 million in 2017.

 

Mr. Rochester's Thornfield Hall



Thornfield Hall is a fictional location in the 1847 novel 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë. It is the home of the male romantic lead, Edward Fairfax Rochester, where much of the action takes place. An isolated mansion of unspecified size, the house has a number of apparently unused rooms that become important to the narrative during the Bertha Mason episodes. Haddon Hall, an English country house on the River Wye near Bakewell, Derbyshire, has been used to depict Thornfield on several occasions.

 

The Woodhouse's Hartfield Estate



Hartfield is an estate featured in 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It is owned by the Woodhouse family and is located near the village of Highbury, and is also relatively close to London. Hartfield is part of “Highbury, the large and populous village, almost amounting to a town, to which Hartfield, in spite of its separate lawn, and shrubberies, and name, did really belong, afforded her no equals.”

 

Hill House



'The Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley Jackson centers on the ghost-filled because the story revolves around it. Hill House is said to have been inspired by the Winchester Mystery House, a Victorian mansion in San Jose, California, that has its own supernatural stories. The former owner of this home, Sarah Winchester, was the widow of William Wirt Winchester, who built his fortune through his firearm company. It’s believed that the Winchester Mystery House is haunted by the spirits of those who lost their lives because of the Winchester rifle!