house was taken by Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont and family, and then from 1908 Sir John Gordon Kennedy and family. At some point after this the estate was purchased by the Community of the Holy Family, an Anglican order of teaching nuns, with a focus on art and scholarship. Their mother foundress, Agnes Morton, who had formed the community in London in 1896 and later brought it to Sussex, recognised the house and gardens as a piece of Italy – specifically Florence – in England. The girls' school that the nuns ran there, from the 1930s to the 1980s, was known as St Mary's Convent School on the Ridge. Its best-known pupil was Joanna Lumley, an "Army brat" who boarded in the 1960s: "I especially loved my second boarding school, an Anglo-Catholic convent in the hills behind Hastings. The nuns wore blue stockings and were brainy and lovely. There were 70 boarders and I was happy as a clam." Hare died unmarried in 1903, and was buried in Herstmonceux. List of works Travel guides: A Handbook for Travellers in Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, (John Murray, 1860) A Winter at Mentone, (Wertheim, Macintosh & Hunt, 1862) A Handbook for Travellers in Northumberland and Durham, (John Murray, 1863) Walks in Rome, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1871) 2 vols. Wanderings in Spain, (Strahan & Co., 1873) Days Near Rome, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1875) 2 vols. Cities of Northern Italy, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1876) 2 vols. Walks in London, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878) Cities of Southern Italy and Sicily, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1883) - Sicily revised in separate volume in 1905 by St. Clair Baddeley Cities of Central Italy, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1884) 2 vols. Florence, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1884) Venice, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1884) Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia, (George Allen, 1885) Studies in Russia, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1885) Paris, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1887) 2 vols. Days Near Paris, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1887) South-Eastern France, (George Allen & Unwin, 1890) South-Western France, (George Allen & Unwin, 1890) North-Eastern France, (George Allen & Unwin, 1890) Sussex, (1894) North-Western France (Normandy and Brittany), (George Allen, 1895) The Rivieras, (George Allen, 1896) Shropshire, (George Allen, 1898) Autobiography: The Story of My Life, (George Allen, 1896-1900) 6 vols. Biography: Memorials of a Quiet Life, (Strahan & Co., 1872–76) 3 vols. Life and Letters of Frances, Baroness Bunsen,