SHRINES

In the belief that museums devoted to the late Victorians play an important part in our understanding of them, we published a first list of 69 shrines in September 2008, with the help of a number of correspondents on VICTORIA and others of THE OSCHOLARS editorial team. For the second edition, we added a further 55, with 46 more in the third, another 10 for the fourth, and six more for the fifth (marked ), totalling 186. The emphasis is on people who lived a substantial part of their lives between c.1880 and 1910, the exceptions being Poe, included because of his long influence on the fin-de-siècle, Bulwer Lytton, who died in 1873, and Comte, who is under studied to-day but whose thought was also influential. Occasionally we stray from the Shrine to the Collection (e.g. Conan Doyle, Gide), and, somewhat whimsically, we have also included Sherlock Holmes, twice. The list will be expanded from time to time, and we will add further information. New additions and visit-based accounts are sought.

We take this opportunity to draw attention to the plight of Undershaw, Conan Doyle’s house at Hindhead in Surrey. Since 2004 it has been in the neglect of a company called Fosseway, who want to convert it into three private houses, and planning permission for this has been granted by the local borough council, apparently in the belief that it has no cultural value. A campaign to save the house as a single private residence has been launched by the Undershaw Preservation Trust, www.saveundershaw.com (and on Facebook), but a further campaign has been created to buy Undershaw and restore it as a Conan Doyle Museum & Centre for British and Irish Crime Writing, with a library, conference facilities, crime writing courses and perhaps a writer in residence. This is the plan of the Undershaw Alliance, a group of more than five hundred academics, crime and thriller writers, librarians and other scholars. For more about this, click here.

Undershaw in the care of Conan Doyle

Undershaw in the care of Fosseway Ltd

Page created September 2008. Updated 3rd November 2008; 18th April 2010; 25th April 2011; 10th February 2012

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NAME		LOCATION (hyperlinked to website)
AUSTRIA
Franz Josef (Emperor)		Bad Ischl
Freud, Sigmund		Vienna
BELGIUM
Horta, Victor		Brussels
Maeterlinck, Maurice		Ghent
Rops, Felicien		Namur
Verhaeren, Emile		Sint-Amands, Oost-Vlaanderen (no website)
CANADA
Carr, Emily		British Columbia
Edison, Thomas Alva		Vienna, Ontario
Johnson, E. Pauline		Ohsweken, Ontario
Leacock, Stephen		Orillia, Ontario
Rutherford, Alexander		Edmonton, Ontario
Stephansson, Stephan		Markerville, Alberta
THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Bilek, Frantisek		Prague
Mucha, Alphonse (Alfons)		Prague
DENMARK
Andersen, Hans		Odense
Nielsen, Carl		Odense
ENGLAND
Armstrong, Sir William		Morpeth, Northumberland
Cameron, Julia Margaret		Isle of Wight
Carlyle, Thomas & Jane		Chelsea, London
Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur		Portsmouth
Curzon, Lord		Derby
Darwin, Charles		Downe, Kent
Disraeli, Benjamin		Beaconsfield, Bucks
Elgar, Edward		Lower Broadheath, Worcs
Fox Talbot, William		Lacock, Wilts
Freud, Sigmund		Hampstead, London
Hardy, Thomas		Higher Bockhampton, Dorset
Hardy, Thomas		Dorchester, Dorset
Hardy, Thomas		Dorchester, Dorset
Holst, Gustave		Cheltenham, Glos
Holmes, Sherlock		Central London
James, Henry		Rye, Kent
Jerome, Jerome K.		Walsall, Staffs
Kipling, Rudyard		Burwash, Sussex
Leighton, Lord		Kensington, London
Lytton, Lord		Knebworth, Herts
Mander, Theodore / Arts & Crafts		Wightwick, Wolverhampton
Morris, William		Bexleyheath, Kent
Morris, William		Walthamstow, London
Morris, William		Hammersmith, London
Morris, William		Lechlade, Glos
Muybridge, Eadweard		Kingston-upon-Thames
Natsume, Soseki		Clapham, London
Nightingale, Florence		Waterloo, London
Pavlova, Anna		Ivy House, Hampstead, London (no website)
Potter, Beatrix		Sawrey, Cumberland
Potter, Beatrix		Hawkshead, Cumberland
Ruskin, John		Coniston, Cumberland
Sambourne, Linley		Kensington, London
Shaw, George Bernard		Ayot St Lawrence, Herts
Terry, Ellen		Tenterden, Kent
Watts, George Frederick		Compton, Surrey
France
Allais, Alphonse		Honfleur
Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules		Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
Bloy, Léon		Lagny-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne)
Blum, Léon		Jouy-les-Josas
Boudin, Eugène		Honfleur
Bourdelle, Antoine		Paris
Boylesve, René		Descartes (Indre-et-Loire)
Clemenceau, Georges		Paris
Clemenceau, Georges		Mouilleron-en-Pareds
Comte, Auguste		Paris
Cros, Charles		Fabrezan (Aude) (no website)
Daudet, Alphonse		Champrosay
Debussy, Claude		Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Denis, Maurice		Saint-Germain-en-Laye
D’Ennery, Adolphe Philippe		Paris
Dumas, Alexandre		Villers-Cotterets
Erckmann-Chatrian		Phalsbourg (Moselle)
Escoffier, Auguste		Villeneuve-Loubet
France, Anatole		St-Cyr/Loire
Gambetta, Léon		Sèvres
Gide, André		Uzès
Guillaumin, Émile		Ygrande
Hébert, Ernest		Paris
Henner, Jean-Jacques		Paris
Hugo, Victor		Bièvres
Hugo, Victor		Paris
Jacquemart, Nélie / André, Edouard		Paris
Jammes, Francis		Orthez
Loti, Pierre		Rochefort
Maillol, Aristide		Paris
Mallarmé, Stéphane		Vulaines-sur-Seine
Moreau, Gustave		Paris
Péguy, Charles		Orléans
Proust, Marcel		Combray
Renan, Ernest		Tréguier
Renard, Jules		Chitry-les-Mines
Rimbaud, Arthur		Charleville-Mézières
Rodin, Auguste		Paris
Rostand, Edmond		Cambo Les Bains
Satie, Erik		Honfleur
Taine, Hippolyte		Annecy
Verne, Jules		Nantes
Zola, Emile		Médan (also here)
GERMANY
Bismarck, Otto von		Friedrichsruh
Marx, Karl		Trier
Storm, Theodor		Husum
Wagner, Richard		Bayreuth
IRELAND
Arthur, Chester H.		Cullybackey, Co Antrim
Joyce, James		Dublin
Joyce, James		Sandycove
Moore, George		Co Mayo
Pearse, Patrick		Rosmuc
Shaw, George Bernard		Dublin
Wilde, Oscar		Dublin
Yeats, W.B.		Gort
The Writers Museum		Dublin
ITALY
D’Annunzio, Gabriele		Gardone Riviera
Brownings, The		Florence
Fortuny, Mariano		Venice
Lee, Vernon		Florence
Puccini, Giacomo		Lucca
Puccini, Giacomo		Torre del Lago
Verdi, Giuseppe		Parma
THE NETHERLANDS
Couperus, Louis		The Hague
Nieuwenhuis, Ferdinand Domela		Heerenveen, Friesland
Van Gogh, Vincent		Amsterdam
Wilhelm II (German emperor)		Doorn
NORWAY
Bull, Ole		Bergen
Grieg, Edvard		Troldhaugen
Ibsen, Henrik		Oslo
Munch, Edvard		Oslo
RUSSIA
Chekhov, Anton		Moscow
Dostoievski, Fedor		St Petersburg
Scriabin, Alexander		Moscow
Tolstoy, Leo (Lev)		Yasnaya Polyana
SAMOA
Stevenson, Robert Louis		Vailima
SCOTLAND
Macintosh, Charles Rennie	Glasgow [[1]]
Macintosh, Charles Rennie	Helensburgh
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Edinburgh
SOUTH AFRICA
Rhodes, Cecil	Cape Town
Schreiner, Olive	Cradock, Eastern Cape
SPAIN
Alcalá-Zamora y Torres, Niceto	Córdoba
Azorin	Monóvar, Alicante
Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente	Burjassot
de Castro, Rosalía	Padron, Coruña
Curros Enríquez, Manuel	Celanova, Ourense
Giner de los Ríos, Francisco	Madrid
de León y Castillo, Fernando	Gran Canaria
Palacio Valdés, Armando	Laviana, Asturias
de Maeztu, Gustavo	Estella, Navarre
Menéndez Pelayo, Marcelino	Santander
Pardo-Bazán, Emilia	Coruña
Pérez Galdós, Benito	Gran Canaria [2]
de Unamuno, Miguel	Fuerteventura, Las Palmas
del Valle-Inclán, Ramón María	Coruña
SWEDEN
Strindberg, August	Stockholm
USA
American Writers Museum	Washington D.C.
Anthony, Susan B.	Rochester, New York
Brownings, The	Waco, Texas
Cather, Willa	Red Cloud, Nebraska
Chopin, Kate	Cloutierville, Louisiana
Crane, Stephen	Asbury Park, New Jersey
Edison, Thomas Alva	Milan, Ohio
Edison, Thomas Alva	Beaumont, Texas
Edison, Thomas Alva	West Orange, New Jersey
Edison, Thomas Alva	Port Huron, Michigan
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Concord, Massachusetts
Frick, Henry Clay	New York
Gage, Matilda Joslyn	Fayetteville, New York
Gardner, Isabella Stewart	Boston, Massachusetts
Grant, Ulysses S.	Point Pleasant, Ohio
Grant, Ulysses S.	St Louis, Missouri
Gunness, Belle	La Porte, Indiana
Hayes, Rutherford B.	Fremont, Ohio
Holmes, Sherlock	Los Angeles, California (a virtual museum)
Ingersoll, Robert Green	Dresden, New York
London, Jack	Sonoma, California
McKinley, William R.	Niles, Ohio
Melville, Herman	Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Miller, Joaquim	Oakland, California
Poe, Edgar Allan	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Poe, Edgar Allan	Richmond, Virginia
Roosevelt, Theodore	Manhattan, New York
Sargent, John Singer	Gloucester, Massachusetts
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady	Seneca Falls, New York
Stevenson, Robert Louis	St Helena, California
Twain, Mark	Hannibal, Missouri
Twain, Mark	Hartford, Connecticut
Wallace, Lew	Crawfordsville, Indiana
Wharton, Edith [3]	Lenox, Massachusetts
Whistler, James Abbot McNeill	Lowell, Massachusetts
Whitman, Walt	Camden, New Jersey
Whitman, Walt	West Hills, New York
Wilder, Laura Ingalls	Mansfield, Missouri
Willard, Frances	Evanston, Illinois
WALES
Gladstone, W.E.	Hawarden

ASSOCIATIONS &c

ACAMFE is the Spanish Asociación de Casas-Museo y Fundaciones de Escritores, founded in 1998.

The Fédération des maisons d’écrivain et des patrimoines littéraires was created in 1997. « The basic aim of our association is to federate all literary places and heritages: writers’ houses, biographical, history or art museums with literary collections, libraries, literary study and research centres. » Their website was radically modernised early in 2011.

The Freethought Trail ‘is a collection of locations in West-Central New York important to the history of freethought. Sites can be browsed by location, by name, by cause, and by type of site. Each site is described in words and in photographs, and directions are provided from one Freethought Trail location to another, so anyone who wants to can make their own path along the multitude of sites on the Trail.’

ICLM abbreviates International Committee for Literature Museums. It was established in 1977 within the International Council of Museums as a professional sub-organization.

Formed in 2003, LitHouses is a group dedicated to excellence in the presentation of the great homes and museums of British literature.

The Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF, Centre for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France) is the national research centre in France responsible for the documentation, conservation and restoration of the items held in the collections of more than 1,200 museums across France.

Further study

Hilary Iris Lowe blogs about literary history, archives, and house museums at www.losthouses.blogspot.com.

MA Cultural Tourism at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Cultural Tourism is one of the most important and rapidly expanding economic and social phenomena of the contemporary world. The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University is a global leader in research and education regarding tourism and its relationships to culture(s).

The MA Cultural Tourism offers:

v An interdisciplinary and international perspective on tourism and culture allowing you to develop an informed position in contemporary theoretical debates and applied policy programmes.

v A research led programme based upon the extensive experience and international work of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change.

v Excellent links with regional, national and international organisations working in the tourism and culture field.

v The opportunity to work on a 'live' case study relating to the cultural sector where you will be able to develop your own interests and skills.

v The opportunity for you to develop your research and analytical skills which will equip you for future leadership roles in the diverse and dynamic field of cultural tourism and/or develop your interests by undertaking a PhD at the prestigious Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change.

Leeds Metropolitan University has one of the largest groupings of tourism researchers in the world in the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change and the International Centre for Responsible Tourism. For further information, please email to Dr Philip Long at culturaltourism@leedsmet.ac.uk, or visit our website for further details: www.tourism-culture.com and follow postgraduate studies.

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC), Faculty of Arts and Society, Leeds Metropolitan University, Old School Board, Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 3ED, England.

· Further research can be carried out through our survey of hero societies and our page of links to French sites, Liens.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

List compiled by D.C Rose, with thanks for suggestions by Carolina Armenteros, Peter Brunning, Robert Buerglener, Joseph F. Campbell, Antoine Capet, William Christian, Jamie S. Crouse, Kecia Dusseault, Tine Englebert, Judith Flanders, Tom Flynn, Richard Fulton, Jim Gallen, Sophie Geoffroy, Jill Grey, Anne Ryan Hanafin, Julia Bolton Holloway, Susan Hoyle, Mary Kuhlman, Patrick Leary, Robert Lapides, Kirsten McLeod, John McRae, Terry Meyers, Wim van Mierlo, Mary Ann Morel, Bob Muscutt, Kathy Nixon, Tiffany Perala, Simon Poe, Annabel Rutherford, Patrick Scott, Malcolm Shifrin, Martha Stoddard-Holmes, Kristen Ann Tetens, Tanya Touwen, Karla Walters, Anna Vaninskaya, and Jennifer Warfel.

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AUSTRIA

BELGIUM

CANADA

THE CZECH REPUBLIC

DENMARK

ENGLAND

France

GERMANY

IRELAND

ITALY

THE NETHERLANDS

NORWAY

RUSSIA

SAMOA

SCOTLAND

SOUTH AFRICA

SPAIN

SWEDEN

USA

WALES

ASSOCIATIONS &c

Further reading:

Further study

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS