Art and Literature Walks
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City of London - The Beard and The Bard
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One walk. Two great writers. Discover Dickens and Shakespeare in the City of London. Find out about a great playhouse, well known to Shakespeare; pass by the site of his home nearby and meet the men who preserved his words for posterity. Dickens was very familiar with the City of London, and it features in a good deal of his writing. We will find the place where a young Dickens got lost and met some giants, the home of his first love and find the iconic building that didn’t quite measure up to expectations.
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City of London - Literary Greats
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Explore the streets, alleyways and churches of the City and their links to literature. Meet poets and writers who lived and worked in the City and their creations. From the author of some of the most erotic love poetry in the English language, who became Dean of St Paul’s, to a Nobel prize winner who worked in one of the City’s banks. Shakespeare and his fellow actors await you in a churchyard and the Man with the Twisted lip lurks close to Charles Dickens.
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City On Canvas
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A guided walk and a an art gallery tour in one! Visit key locations in the City of London and then see how they have been interpreted on canvas by artists through the centuries in the works of art on display at the The Guildhall Art Gallery.
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Not the Bloomsbury Group
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Bloomsbury is well known as the home of the writers and artists such as Virginia Woolf who made up the Bloomsbury group. On this walk meet some of the other literary and artistic geniuses who have lived and worked in the area.
Find out who could hear his neighbours’ love life through the wall, why a detective writer decided she had to move out and how the director of Bedlam encouraged a local artist. Meet an inspirational feminist, see some trail blazing bookshops and encounter a naked poet. |