A marvelous house
by chuckofish
An illusionistic interior painting by Samuel van Hoogstraeten seen at the end of an enfilade at Dyrham. ©NTPL/Andreas von Einsiedel
Dyrham is a house I would love to explore and would probably enjoy getting lost in. Living in such a place does not attract me — far to big and cold — but give me a day or two to poke around and I would be in heaven.
Writing cabinet in a closet at Dyrham
And wouldn’t such a writing desk guarantee great romance or at least deathless prose?
If you want to find our more about this house, visit the National Trusts’ blog http://nttreasurehunt.wordpress.com/
dual personalities 
Super-duper! I like the writing cabinet in a CLOSET! Good grief, some closet, right?
We just talked about this in my theory of the novel class — writing and reading were traditionally done in rooms called “closets” which were just off the bedroom; they were practically libraries. It was a private space since writing and reading were private activities (with the form of the novel you could finally read ALONE in PEACE!! in your CLOSET!!!!) which is why, in Defoe’s PAMELA, she’s always writing letters in her closet and being spied on by her creepy master through the keyhole of her closet, etc. Voyeurism of literature, WOAH!!
Well. Thank you, that explains a lot!
I want a closet of my own! An office hardly counts because people are always stopping by, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a private writing room/library adjacent to one’s bedroom? Count me in.
Was this what Virginia Woolf was talking about, i.e. A Room of One’s Own?!
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