More Literary Homes for Sale

A few weeks ago, I wrote about J.K. Rowlings’ childhood home being for sale. Well, that has sold already, but there are two more literary homes on offer.

Daphne DuMaurier’s cottage in Cornwall, with the amazing name of Readymoney, is on the market. This is the house where she lived after she wrote  Rebecca and Frenchman’s Creek. The cottage was originally built as a coach house and stables for the nearby waterfront Italianate mansion, Point Neptune.From there, duMaurier moved to Menabilly, a grander house she had known for years and which is reputedly one of the inspirations for Manderley, the atmospheric but doom-laden house and estate in Rebecca.

The home where Charles Dickens summered for more than 22 years is also on the market. Originally named Fort House, after he stopped going there the house was re-named as Bleak House, after his famous story. This house is where he completed David Copperfield, and it was where the idea of Bleak House came to him.  The residence is located at the top of a cliff with stunning views of the English Channel, where Dickens could watch the maritime trade passing by. Both houses are for sale in the vicinity of £2 million.

{Sorry for my absence the past day or two. I’ve been struggling with a bout of vertigo, but seem to be feeling much better now, thanks!}