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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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