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We make the journey north to York to discover places associated with their lives, alongside other historic houses with literary associations such as Knebworth House, once the residence of dramatist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and East Riddlesden Hall, believed to be the inspiration for Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore.
3 days ago · Playwright and actor Kevin Loring, who is a member of the Lytton First Nation, was sitting in his backyard in Metcalfe, Ont., planning a trip to his hometown when he saw images and video on...
5 days ago · The filming locations for the Constance Billard School for Girls goes back to the first two seasons of Gossip Girl, where it was filmed at The Museum of the City of New York.
5 days ago · Based on the novel by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows, this swashbuckling tale — which was inspired very loosely by the story of Lady Jane Grey, the infamous "Nine Days' Queen"—...
1 day ago · Blavatsky's mother liked the city, there establishing her own literary career, penning novels under the pseudonym of "Zenaida R-va" and translating the works of the English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton for Russian publication.
2 days ago · Tenants included the novelist Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton (1803-73), who took the house for his wife in the 1830s and lived there himself in 1835-6, and nuns of the Sacred Heart from 1842 to 1850. In 1842 the grounds totalled 11½a.
3 days ago · The lower part of the two W. towers was built under Abbot Islip (1500–33). Under Islip also the Lady chapel and chapel of St. Erasmus were pulled down and the Lady chapel re-built with aisles and chapels by Henry VII, the foundation stone being laid in 1503 and the chapel itself finished c. 1519.
