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Walking Jane Austen's London


Walking Jane Austen's London

Paperback by Allen, Louise

Walking Jane Austen's London

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ISBN:
9780747812951
Publication Date:
10 Jul 2013
Language:
English;English
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:
Shire Publications
Pages:
112 pages
Format:
Paperback
For delivery:
Estimated despatch 1 - 6 May 2024
Walking Jane Austen's London

Description

From prize-winning historical novelist Louise Allen, this book presents eight walks through both the London Jane Austen knew and the London of her novels! Follow in Jane's footsteps to her publisher's doorstep and the Prince Regent's vanished palace, see where she stayed when she was correcting proofs of Sense and Sensibility and accompany her on a shopping expedition - and afterwards to the theatre. In modern London the walker can still visit the church where Lydia Bennett married Wickham, stroll with Elinor Dashwood in Kensington Palace Gardens or imagine they follow Jane's naval officer brothers as they stride down Whitehall to the Admiralty. From well-known landmarks to hidden corners, these walks reveal a lost London that can still come alive in vivid detail for the curious visitor, who will discover eighteenth-century chop houses, elegant squares, sinister prisons, bustling city streets and exclusive gentlemen's clubs amongst innumerable other Austen-esque delights.

Contents

Introduction / Walk 1: Sloane Street to Kensington Palace Gardens / Walk 2: Marylebone and Bond Street / Walk 3: Mayfair / Walk 4: Leicester Square to Green Park / Walk 5: Soho to the British Museum / Walk 6: Westminster to Charing Cross / Walk 7: Somerset House to Lincoln's Inn Fields / Walk 8: Temple Bar to London Bridge / Index

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