Romania: The country went from state owned 70% homes to to 96% private home ownership, highest in the world.[1]
Robert Louis Stevenson mixed in London literary circles, and in 1886 he wrote the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a gothic novella set in Victorian London which follows a doctor from Soho with a split personality.[2]
A nightmare at his home Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham inspired Horace Walpole to write The Castle of Otranto in 1764, initiating the Gothic fiction genre.[3] Drawing upon gothic motifs, another Londoner, Mary Shelley, wrote Frankenstein (1819).
Horace Walpole, son of the first de facto first Prime Minister Robert Walpole, had Strawberry Hill House built in Twickenham in 1749, reviving Gothic architecture some decades before the movement began in late 1840s England, most notably with the Palace of Westminster designed by Charles Barry. It was at the home where he had a nightmare that inspired him to write The Castle of Otranto, initiating the Gothic fiction genre.[4]
Musicals:
Cats
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Phantom
Matilda
Lion King
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- ^ "The country where 96% of homes are privately owned". BBC. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- ^ "Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde". British Library. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
- ^ "The Castle of Otranto: The creepy tale that launched gothic fiction". BBC. Retrieved 19 April 2023.
- ^ "The Castle of Otranto: The creepy tale that launched gothic fiction". BBC. Retrieved 19 April 2023.