Struggling to pen down your magnum opus? Read this list of places where a few great English novelists lived, breathed and wrote their manuscripts. Who knows - it might give you some ink-spiration.

Jane Austen

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a novel by Jane Austen must be in want of more. Even 200 years after her death, the English novelist is not only widely read till date, but also re-read frequently. Her most known work, Pride and Prejudice has been adapted time and again to film and TV. Readers can not only visit but step inside Austen's country home in Chawton, where she wrote her classics, Pride and Prejudice, Emma , Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility and Northanger Abbey, among others. The home museum now houses first editions of Jane Austen's books, letters written by her, her personal jewellery collection, bookcases, and gasp, her great writing table. You can also visit her grave in Winchester Cathedral, and later visit the British Library in London to see parts of original manuscripts.