Colm Tóibín's remarkable novel, The Master, moves with Henry James to London, New England, Ireland, Italy, and other places, but it is Lamb House in Rye, Sussex, that lingers in thought after the last page is read. Henry James lived in Lamb House from 1898 to 1916. Later, authors E. F. Benson and Rumer Godden would call it home. Information about visiting Lamb House is available on the United Kingdom's National Trust website.
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Read more about Lamb House at Tour UK
http://www.touruk.co.uk/houses/housesuss_lamb.htm
And about Rye
www.rye-tourism.co.uk
"Lamb House in Rye had fallen vacant, Milson told him, and could be had. His first thought was that he would lose it, the house at the quiet corner at the top of a cobbled hill whose garden room Edward Warren had drawn so lovingly, the establishment he had glanced at so achingly and covetously on his many tours of Rye, a house both modest and grand, both central and secluded, the sort of house which seemed to belong so comfortably and naturally to others and to be inhabited so warmly and fruitfully by them." -- from The Master, by Colm Tóibín
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