If visitors seek an imaginary place and its association with fictional characters, questions of authenticity arise in an unfamiliar form. It is, how- ever, a form which is increasingly addressed by cultural geographers. Daniels and Rycroft 6 argued that there were no simple dichotomies of objective and subjective, real and imaginative but 'a field of textual genres - the novel, the poem, the travel guide, the map, the regional monograph - with complex overlaps and connections'. Cosgrove and Domosh 7 stated 'When we write our geographies we are not just representing some reality, we are creat- ing meaning'. A literary or artistic place can be regarded as a place to which visitors attach meaning and it is the value of this meaning to them which draws them there. Meaning can be derived from reading a novel or seeing a work of art as much as from knowing about the life of the writer or artist. Discussion has focused on literary places but the homes or known environs of artists can be equally influential in attracting tourists. At Giverny, Nor- mandy, the former house and gardens of the painter Monet attract visitors and many of them will also associate his paintings, such as the studies of water- lilies, with that place. Daniels 8 noted that by the 1890s there were coach tours to 'Constable country' in the Stour Valley in Suffolk, attracted by landscape paintings such as the Haywain which had come to symbolize the 'essential England'.