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 this second edition, we have added a further 55. The emphasis is on people who lived a substantial part of their lives between c.1880 and 1910, the exception being Poe, included because of his long influence on the fin-de-siècle. Somewhat whimsically, we have also included Sherlock Holmes. The list will be expanded from time to time, and we will add further information. New additions and visit-based accounts are sought.
v There will be a conference on Museums and Biography at the National Gallery in London, 10th–12th September 2009; the call for papers (deadline 31st January) appears in our section BEING TALKED ABOUT.
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NAME	LOCATION (hyperlinked to website)
AUSTRIA
Franz Josef (Emperor)	Bad Ischl
Freud, Sigmund	Vienna
BELGIUM
Horta, Victor	Brussels
Maeterlinck, Maurice	Ghent
Rops, Felicien	Namur
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
DENMARK
Andersen, Hans	Odense
ENGLAND
Armstrong, Sir William	Morpeth, Northumberland
Cameron, Julia Margaret	Isle of Wight
Carlyle, Thomas & Jane	Chelsea, London
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
Kipling, Rudyard	Burwash, Sussex
Leighton, Lord	Kensington, London
Lytton, Lord	Knebworth, Herts
Morris, William	Bexleyheath, Kent
Morris, William	Walthamstow, London
Morris, William	Hammersmith, London
Morris, William	Lechlade, Glos
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
Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules	Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte
Boudin, Eugène	Honfleur
Bourdelle, Antoine	Paris
Clemenceau, Georges	Paris; website http://www.musee-clemenceau.fr/ not working 22.10.08
Clemenceau, Georges	Mouilleron-en-Pareds
Daudet, Alphonse	Champrosay
Debussy, Claude	Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Escoffier, Auguste	Villeneuve-Loubet
Hébert, Ernest	Paris
Henner, Jean-Jacques	Paris
Hugo, Victor	Bièvres
Hugo, Victor	Paris
Jacquemart, Nélie / André, Edouard	Paris
Jammes, Francis	Orthez
Loti, Pierre	Rochefort
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
GERMANY
Bismarck, Otto von	Friedrichsruh
Marx, Karl	Trier
Wagner, Richard	Bayreuth
IRELAND
Joyce, James	Dublin
Joyce, James	Sandycove
Moore, George	Co Mayo
Pearse, Patrick	Rosmuc
Shaw, George Bernard	Dublin
Wilde, Oscar	Dublin
Yeats, W.B.	Gort
ITALY
Brownings, The	Florence
Lee, Vernon	Florence
Puccini, Giacomo	Lucca
Puccini, Giacomo	Torre del Lago
Verdi, Giuseppe	Parma
THE NETHERLANDS
Couperus, Louis	The Hague
NORWAY
Ibsen, Henrik	Oslo
RUSSIA
Chekhov, Anton	Moscow
Dostoievski, Fedor	St Petersburg
Scriabin, Alexander	Moscow
Tolstoy, Leo (Lev)	Yasnaya Polyana
SAMOA
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Vailima
SCOTLAND
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Edinburgh
SOUTH AFRICA
Schreiner, Olive	Cradock, Eastern Cape
SWEDEN
Strindberg, August	Stockholm
USA
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
Gardner, Isabella Stewart	Boston, Massachusetts
Grant, Ulysses S.	Point Pleasant, Ohio
Gunness, Belle	La Porte, Indiana
London, Jack	Sonoma,California
McKinley, William R	Niles, Ohio
Melville, Herman	Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Miller, Joaquim	Oakland, California
Poe, Edgar Allan	Richmond, Virginia
Roosevelt, Theodore	Manhattan, New York
Sargent, John Singer	Gloucester, Massachusetts
Stevenson, Robert Louis	St Helena, California
Twain, Mark	Hannibal, Missouri
Twain, Mark	Hartford, Connecticut
Wallace, Lew	Crawfordsville, Indiana
Wharton, Edith	Lenox, Massachusetts
Whitman, Walt	West Hills, New York
Wilder, Laura Ingalls	Mansfield, Missouri
WALES
Gladstone, W.E.	Hawarden

Further reading:

Writers and Their Houses. A guide to the writers' houses of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Edited by Kate Marsh, London: Hamilton, 19930-241-12769-6.

Composers' Houses by Gerald Gefen. Photography by Christine Bastine & Jacques Evrard, Vendome Press, 1998.

Writers' Houses by Francesca Premoli-Droulers. Photography Erica Lennard, Vendome Press, 2002.

We also draw your attention to Nicola Watson's The Literary Tourist: Readers & Places in Romantic and Victorian Britain (Palgrave, 2006) and to the conference LITERARY TOURISM AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE (2007), which is on line.

· List compiled by D. C Rose, with thanks for suggestions by Jamie S. Crouse, Kecia Dusseault, Tine Englebert, Judith Flanders, Richard Fulton, 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, Simon Poe, Annabel Rutherford, Patrick Scott, Malcolm Shifrin, Martha Stoddard-Holmes, Kristen Ann Tetens, Karla Walters, Tiffany Thomas, Anna Vaninskaya, and Jennifer Warfel.

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