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Dora Gordine’s bronze sculptures, made at her home at Richmond Park, were the first by a woman to be acquired by the Tate Gallery

Horace Walpole’s Gothic Revival house became hugely influential as an English architectural style

The novelist wrote most of his virtuoso, near-mythical ‘Moby-Dick’ in this Massachusetts farmhouse

The life of a Georgian home and its residents through the centuries, from town house to tenement

Displays at the former home of the French father of science fiction mix the mundane with the imaginary

The inspirational leader led much of his nonviolent campaign for Indian independence from a spartan room in a Mumbai ‘jewel box’

The influential but often overlooked writer celebrated nature from his Californian coastal outpost — and warned of the climate crisis decades before others

The American architect’s minimalist folly, with its views of lush lawns — or ‘expensive wallpaper’ — was as influential as it was controversial

The home of ‘the grandson of Velázquez and the son of Goya’ is an oasis amid Madrid’s baking heat

The former royal residence was also the birthplace of MC Escher and is now home to a wide-ranging ceramics collection