Friday, March 11, 2011

Memorable Settings of Novels

On 3/6/11, I wrote about memorable characters in novels; today I write of memorable settings, whether fictional or real, in novels. Some are houses or estates; some are cities. Most have positive connotations, some do not. But all linger in my mind even many years after reading the novels in which the settings are portrayed. Below are some examples:

-Barton Cottage (in Sense and Sensibility)
-Longbourn, Netherfield Park, Pemberley (in Pride and Prejudice)
-Mansfield Park (in Mansfield Park)
-Hartfield, Donwell Abbey, Highbury (in Emma)
-Bath, Northanger Abbey (in Northanger Abbey)
-Lyme, Bath (in Persuasion)
-Lowood School, Thornfield, the moors (in Jane Eyre)
-Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange, the moors in Yorkshire (in Wuthering Heights)
-Cranford (in Cranford)
-Wessex (in Hardy's novels)
-Dublin (in Ulysses, The Dubliners)
-New York City (in Wharton's novels)
-Long Island (in The Great Gatsby)
-Nebraska (in My Antonia)
-The Dakotas (in Giants in the Earth)
-Prince Edward Island (in Anne of Green Gables)
-The March family house, the Lawrence family house next door (in Little Women)
-London (in Mrs. Dalloway)
-Howards End (in Howards End)
-the Marabar Caves (in A Passage to India)
-Paris cafes and bars (in The Sun Also Rises)
-Yoknapatawpha County (in Faulkner's novels)
-Malgudi (in R. K. Narayan's novels)
-Los Angeles (in The Day of the Locust)
-Los Angeles (in Joan Didion's work)
-Salinas, Monterey (in Steinbeck's novels)
-San Francisco (in Alice Adams' novels and stories)
-San Francisco (in Armistead Maupin's novels)
 
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