Writers’ Houses: Lord Byron / Brontë Sisters / John Keats / Jane Austen / Percy Bysshe Shelley / George Eliot / Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Virginia Woolf | Paper Collages by Amanda White, 2011-2019

John Keats, Winter Snows (Keats House, Hampstead)

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A collage portrait of Wentworth Place (now Keats House) where Romantic poet
John Keats lived from 1818 to 1820. It was here he wrote some of his greatest poetry
and where he fell in love with and became engaged to the girl next door, Fanny Brawne.

Love letters to Fanny Brawne | John Keats, 1820 > 

Lord Byron, Haunted Newstead Abbey

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The family seat of the Byrons in Nottinghamshire, seen here on a dark and stormy night.
The Romantic poet Lord Byron inherited the ruined property in 1798. Said to be one
of the most haunted buildings in England, the Abbey datesback to the thirteenth century.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mine Own Countree

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English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote some of his best-known work in
this humble cottage where he lived for three years from 1797.
The title of this picture comes from a line in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and at
the top you can see the mariner’s ship and the albatross.

Jane Austen, Chawton Cottage Caller

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Jane Austen lived at Chawton Cottage with her mother, sister Cassandra and best friend
Martha Lloyd from 1809 to 1817. Here she wrote and revised some of her best loved
novels – despite interruptions from callers!

George Eliot, The Holly and the Ivy
George Eliot’s birthplace in Nuneaton, England

The home of the Brontë Sisters in Haworth, Yorkshire.

John Keats, Autumn Days

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