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The setting is Green Knowe, an old country manor house based on Boston's Cambridgeshire home at Hemingford Grey. For the fourth book in the series, A Stranger at Green Knowe (1961), she won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association , recognising the year's best children's book by a British subject .
In 1846, the Canford Manor Estate, Dorset was purchased by John Josiah Guest, the Welsh iron magnate, and his wife Lady Charlotte Guest, for £335,000 as a country retreat. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Over time the family spent increasing amounts of time in Dorset , although Guest continued his role as sole manager of the Dowlais Ironworks Company , which had ...
The Manor, Hemingford Grey, the 12th-century house on which Green Knowe was based. Green Knowe is a series of six children's novels written by Lucy M. Boston, illustrated by her son Peter Boston, [1] and published from 1954 to 1976.
Belleek Castle, originally known as Belleek Manor, [1] is a 19th-century manor house in Ballina, County Mayo in Ireland. Now operated as a hotel, the house was built between 1825 and 1831 in a neo-Gothic style. [2] The 10-room hotel has a museum in its basement containing what is reputed to be Grace O'Malley's bed. [3]
The manor house is an eclectic Chinese and French Renaissance style inspired dwelling. It is U-shaped, 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 stories high with hipped and gable roofs, covered with concrete block on a concrete foundation. The front facade features a steeply pitched roof, four large irregularly spaced chimneys, and a large brick tourelle with a conical roof.
Entrance to the Mount Oswald estate. The manor house was built for John Richardby, a London merchant, in 1800. [2] It was bought by Thomas Wilkinson (1752-1825), a former mayor of Durham, in 1806 and it then passed to the Rev Percival Spearman Wilkinson (1792-1875), in 1828. [2]
The Wildes - who also owned the neighboring 1,300-acre (5.3 km 2) High Lawn manor (designed by Delano and Aldrich) and farm [5] - pursued the Inn concept in order to preserve the estate and provide summer employment for the area's many teachers. The Inn eventually faltered and due to overwhelming operational costs, the house shuttered in 1959.
The school is based on the Manor House School which Poe attended from 1817 to 1820. [1] Poe's headmaster there, the Reverend John Bransby, shares the same name as the headmaster in the story, though, in the latter, he acquires the dignity of being a "Doctor". [2] This school has since been demolished.