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Curators at Thomas Jefferson’s palatial home in Virginia try to balance the US founding father’s lofty ideals with his involvement in slavery

The young author experienced both heartbreak and scandal in this gracious Dublin home

This formative building in the career of the US architect was the first over which he had complete artistic control

The Barcelona home is considered to be the architect’s first masterpiece

The Irish author lived in the defensive fort only a short time — but it would be pivotal in the writing of ‘Ulysses’

The home of the polymathic designer couple Charles and Ray Eames evinces their mid-century modern ideals 

The house in Istanbul is a companion piece to Orhan Pamuk’s bestselling novel of the same name about a doomed love affair

The author’s best-selling works were a bridge between the US and China, where she grew up, at a time of ignorance and prejudice

The classic novel ‘Little Women’ is based very much on its author’s life in this house in Massachusetts

The London home of the Romantic poet evokes his brief life in a contemplative space