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| Charles Kingsley |
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1819
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1875
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The only place name in the world to include an exclamation mark, ‘Westward Ho!’ on the North Devon coastline was named after the novel written by Charles Kingsley, who lived nearby, at Bideford; now home to a statue in his memory.
Kingsley drew inspiration for the novel from the pretty, harbour...
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| Dame Agatha Christie |
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1890
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1976
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Dame Agatha Christie, the world’s most popular mystery and crime writer was born in Torquay. The young Agatha lived, worked and socialised in the fashionable resort during the early 1900’s. Many of the locations inspired her writing and now appear on the pages of her best selling mystery...
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| Daphne Du Maurier |
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1907
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1989
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Cornwall’s most famous novelist, by far is Daphne du Maurier who came to Fowey in 1926 with her family. Their home was a Swiss style cottage named Ferryside, close to the Bodinnick Ferry, and it was here that Daphne wrote her first novel “The Loving Spirit”.
During one of her...
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| Henry Williamson |
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1895
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1977
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Tarka Country, based on the classic tale of “Tarka the Otter”, covers over 500 square miles from the tip of Dartmoor to the Exmoor Coastline.
Henry Williamson wrote Tarka the Otter in the 1920’s whilst living at Georgeham. The countryside with its wild moorland, rocky coast, tumbling rivers and...
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