Great Maytham Hall, near Rolvenden, Kent, England, is a Grade II* listed country house. The gardens are famous for providing the inspiration for The Secret...
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the rights of women". From the mid-1890s, she lived in England at Great Maytham Hall—which had a large garden where she indulged her love for flowers—where...
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garden which has been locked for ten years. The author was inspired by Great Maytham Hall in Kent. "Rappaccini's Daughter", a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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writes that while the rose garden at Mayham Hall may have been "crucial" to the novel's development, Maytham Hall and Misselthwaite Manor are physically very...
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British literature (redirect from Literature of great britain)
Inspiration for Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden was the Great Maytham Hall Garden in Kent. Hugh Lofting created the character Doctor Dolittle...
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Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel The Secret Garden (1910) was the Great Maytham Hall Garden in Kent. While fighting in the trenches for the British Army...
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Canterbury and in Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett rented Great Maytham Hall, down from the higher land towards Rolvenden Layne, in 1898 and a...
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Franks Hall Gads Hill Place Godinton House The Grange, Ramsgate Great Maytham Hall Goodnestone Park Hadlow Castle Hever Castle Higham Park Holcombe Manor...
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English Architect Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869–1944). London: Arts Council of Great Britain. pp. 179–80. ISBN 0-7287-0304-1. "The History of Rashtrapati Bhavan :...
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The building and grounds of ‘Stornham Court’ were modelled after Great Maytham Hall, near Rolvenden in Kent, which had a beautiful garden that Bettina...
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Service Corps for 16 years. In 1955 he prevented the demolition of Great Maytham Hall. In 1964, he bought Romanoff Lodge in Tunbridge Wells, which he saved...
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investors and again in December 2004 to Country House Weddings Ltd. Great Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent – purchased in 1965, sold in 2004 to Sunley Heritage...
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area and is also a conservation area. Frances Hodgson Burnett rented Great Maytham Hall, located between Rolvenden and Rolvenden Layne, in 1898. After her...
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Abraham in 1896. He bought Great Maytham Hall, Rolvenden, Kent, in 1910. He commissioned Edwin Lutyens to rebuild the hall at a cost of £24,000. As leader...
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and clients. Lutyens had undertaken renovation work at the nearby Great Maytham Hall, completed in 1912, for Harold "Jack" Tennant, who chaired the war...
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C. M. Russell Museum Complex (category Museums in Great Falls, Montana)
hired Denver, Colorado-based art consultant Thomas Maytham as interim executive director. Maytham served from August to December 1999. Museum curator...
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Town: Reader’s Digest Association Ltd. pp. 20–25. ISBN 0-947008-90-X. Maytham Kid, Mary (1983). "Introduction". In: Cape Peninsula. South African Wild...
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City of Bangor (ship) (category Great Lakes articles missing geocoordinate data)
the ship slipped overboard and were lost. During the same storm, Thomas Maytham, which was carrying 20,000 tons of grain from Duluth to Toledo, Ohio, went...
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joined by marriage in the early 18th century with the Monypennys of Maytham Hall. The house was built circa 1720. In 1837 Thomas Gybbon Monypenny MP enlarged...
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Germany, forty-year-old Walter Maytham and sixteen-year-old Rowland Brown rushed to enlist. Both were turned down, Maytham because of a "deformed toe" and...
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Goodnestone Park and garden 19th century TR 25473 54136 1000260 Upload Photo Great Maytham II Rolvenden Park and garden 1910s TQ 84569 30799 1000221 Upload Photo...
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Mary Mayo Crenshaw (1875–1951), American author and civil servant Mary Maytham Kidd (1914–2001), South African botanical artist Mary Mazur, American producer...
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college was evacuated from its London site and moved to a mansion named Great Maytham in Rolvenden in west Kent. However, because of the threat of a German...
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Gatehouse to Great Maytham...
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Wittersham Road railway station (category Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1900)
Sussex Railway. It is located to the north-east of the level crossing on Maytham Road which links the Kentish villages of Rolvenden and Wittersham. Having...
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