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Some of the London writers featured on the London Literary Pub Crawl.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Thursday, February 9, 2023, In : Bohemian Britain

London has been home to some of the most revered writers in history. Here are five of the most famous writers who have lived and worked in the city:

1.  Charles Dickens: The renowned English author was born in Portsmouth, but moved to London in his early twenties and wrote most of his beloved classics, such as Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, while living in the city. 

2.  George Orwell: The author of Animal Farm and 1984 spent much of his life in London and his novels we...

Virginia Woolf: writing death and illness into the national story of post-first world war Britain.

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, March 27, 2021, In : Writers

Another interesting piece from The Conversation, by Jess Cotton, Lecturer at the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University.

Illness, unlike war, as English academic and writer Elizabeth Outka brilliantly demonstrates in her book Viral Modernism(2019), is a story that easily slips out of cultural and historical memory.

In illness, the modernist writer Virginia Woolf observed, “We cease to be soldiers in the army of the upright; we become deserters.” Woolf, writing i...

Merry Christmas (Part Deux) and a Happy New Year!

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Wednesday, December 31, 2014, In : Nick Hennegan

From all of us here at Lit Pub Crawl towers. May you have a happy and fulfilling Christmas and a peaceful New Year. We loves ya, you know that, don't ya...!

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Famous Writers of London

Posted by Nick Hennegan on Saturday, June 14, 2014, In : Writers

Over the years, London has been the home of many famous writers. Whilst not all of London’s writers were born in the city, many considered it to be the place where they belonged. Here we will talk through some of the famous writers that resided in London and their well-known works of literature

Showing Tag: "woolf" (Show all posts)

Some of the London writers featured on the London Literary Pub Crawl.

London has been home to some of the most revered writers in history. Here are five of the most famous writers who have lived and worked in the city:

1. Charles Dickens: The renowned English author was born in Portsmouth, but moved to London in his early twenties and wrote most of his beloved classics, such as Great Expectations, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol, while living in the city.

2. George Orwell: The author of Animal Farm and 1984 spent much of his life in London and his novels we...

Virginia Woolf: writing death and illness into the national story of post-first world war Britain.

Merry Christmas (Part Deux) and a Happy New Year!

Famous Writers of London

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