{"id":44517,"date":"2018-06-09T16:00:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/09\/fans-in-fight-to-restore-george-eliots-coventry-home\/"},"modified":"2018-06-09T16:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T14:00:14","slug":"fans-in-fight-to-restore-george-eliots-coventry-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=44517","title":{"rendered":"Fans in fight to restore George Eliot\u2019s Coventry home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign group SAVE Britain\u2019s Heritage hopes the author\u2019s bicentenary next year, and Coventry\u2019s upcoming city of culture status can kickstart a restoration projectHeritage campaigners are battling to restore the Coventry home of one of Britain\u2019s greatest authors to its former glory, as the city prepares to become UK city of culture in 2021.In its Victorian heyday, Bird Grove in Coventry was a two-storey town house with whitewashed walls and grand staircases, and was considered a classic of its genre. It was also home to a young Mary Ann Evans, better known by her pen name, George Eliot. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2018\/jun\/09\/coventry-george-eliot-home-restoration-city-of-culture\" target=\"_blank\">Fans in fight to restore George Eliot\u2019s Coventry home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign group SAVE Britain\u2019s Heritage hopes the author\u2019s bicentenary next year, and Coventry\u2019s upcoming city of culture status can kickstart a restoration projectHeritage campaigners are battling to restore the Coventry home of one of Britain\u2019s greatest authors to its former glory, as the city prepares to become UK city of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}