Haunted Houses & History

From time to time I fall in love with a grand building and embark on something very complicated and time-consuming. I like them to have an interesting back story, especially if it’s a supernatural one!

Ferryside (163)

A William Wordsworth Christmas Winter’s Moon, Dove Cottage (162)

A Jane Austen Christmas Austen Angels (161)

The Brönte Sisters of Haworth (159)

The Loving Spirit (157)

Black Tom at Home (AW160)

Summer Skies, Hampstead (detail) (AW144)

Monk’s House (Detail) (AW135)

Monk’s House Garden (Detail) (AW136)

The Evening Walk (AW87)

Hill Top Summer (AW88)

Clouds Hill, Dorset (AW89)

Haworth Parsonage (Detail) (AW98)

The Carpenter’s Daughter (AW81)

The Birds Have Flown (AW82)

Summer’s Evening,
Chawton Cottage Garden (AW83)

The Eve of St Agnes (AW78)

An Earthly Paradise (AW79)

Votes for Women (AW80)

Murmuration, Arundel Castle (AW76)

The Culloden Widow (AW77)

A Ghost in the Heights Wild December, Top Withens (detail) (AW70)

A Beatrix Potter Christmas Miss Potter’s First Hill Top Winter (AW71)

Beatrix Heelis and her Herdwicks (AW74)

The Brontë Family at Thornton Parsonage (AW61)

A Gift Of Soldiers (AW62)

The Sweet Day Departed (AW54)

Haworth Winter (AW55)

Haunted Blickling Hall (AW59)

Branwell’s Demons (AW57)

A Melodious Plot (AW58)

Miss Brontë Taught at the Village School (AW60)

A Bloomsbury Tea Party (AW46)

A Brontë Bookmark (AW49)

A Virginia Woolf Bookmark (AW50)

A Keats Bookmark (AW51)

Monk’s House Weekend, 1931 (Detail) (AW45)

Mine Own Countree Coleridge Cottage (AW37)

Haworth Visitations (AW39)

Haunted Newstead Abbey Lord Byron (AW38)

Haunted Ham House (AW40)

Keeping Watch, Lyme Regis (AW36)

4 Sydney Place (AW22)

Blake’s Cottage, Felpham (AW23)

Brontë Moon (AW24)

Mr Dickens and his Dog in Doughty Street (AW25)

Far from the Madding Crowd (AW26)

Dr Johnson his House in Gough Square and Hodge his Cat (AW27)

Silent is the House (Haworth Parsonage) (AW28)

A Dickensian Patchwork – Gad’s Hill Place (AW30)

Passing Showers, Hill Top, 1905 (AW32)

Sweet Baby Charles (AW16)

After the Waves (AW17)

36 Craven Street (AW18)

Autumn Days, Keats House, Hampstead (AW19)

Sheep and Storm, Dove Cottage (AW13)

Prospect Cottage, Dungeness (AW14)

Plein Air in Charleston Farmhouse Garden (AW15)

Autumn Evening, Haworth Parsonage (AW1)

Vita and Harold in their Sissinghurst Garden (AW5)

Field Place, Sussex, and a Storm at Sea (AW2)

Chawton Cottage Caller (AW3)

Full Moon Over Allan Bank (AW4)

Jane and Cassandra Austen Tending their Steventon Garden (AW8)

Night and Day, Monk’s House, Rodmell (AW9)

Hampstead Landscape, Letter from Naples (AW10)