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Thu 20 Oct, 2005 07:27 am
Sand Point,Long Island was the inspiration for F Scott Fitzgerald novel
THE GREAT GATSBY.
Menability,Cornwall was the setting for Daphne du Maurier REBECCA.
KNOW ANY LITERARY LOCATIONS?
Baker Street? Never been there, but they have a museum there eh?
YOU MEAN SHERLOCK HOLMES?
Prince Edward Island, Canada for Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Yukon Teritory of Canada for Call of The Wild by Jack London
Sherlock Holmes.
PEI in Canada as mentioned by Sturgis is home for Anne of Green Gables.
Are you asking whether or not anyone has been to a literary location?
Watership down between Basingstoke and nEWBURY.
Knutsford is Cransford in Ealizabeth Gaskell's novels
Boscastle was CASTLE BOTEREL in a PAIR OF BLUE EYES by Thomas Hardy.
THE MANACLES,CORNWALL,were one of the settings for Philip Marsden's THE MAIN CAGES.
POLDARK was set in the coastline around ST AGNES AND PERRANPORTH
THE SHELL SEEKERS WAS SET AROUND ST IVES
A SWEET OBSCURITY is set in Penwith
Lerryn Creek near Fowey inspired Wind in the Willows.
Haworth area is the literary location of many BRONTE NOVELS.
Oare area,EXMOOR is `LORNA DOONE' country.
Monterey, CA (Cannery Row, Tortilla Flats).
Salinas, CA (East of Eden).
Los Angeles, CA (virtually every Raymond Chandler novel ever published, LA Confidential and The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy, along with a host of other books by various authors too numerous to mention).
LYME REGIS;FRENCH LIEUTANT'S WIFE(SP?)
CORFE CASTLE APPEARED INONE OR TWO OF ENID BLYTON'S BOOKS
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