Literary Britain

December 28, 2022 1:07 PM

A blog about travelling around Britain (mostly England and Wales) with a literary focus.
* Welcome to Sunny Stevenage (Ellen Terry, Gordon Craig, Forster, Orwell, Bulwer-Lytton)
* The Strangest Town in Wales (Laugharne: Dylan Thomas)
* East Enders (Dickens, Marlowe, other London writers)

* A Pilgrim’s Progress (Bedford and Bunyan)
* Norwich (Amelia Opie, George Borrow, Julian of Norwich, bookshops and museum)
* Austen (and a cat)
* Fenland (Sayers)
* Portsmouth (Dickens)
* Easton Lodge, Essex (Frances Greville)
* And so here’s Rugby at last (Thomas Hughes, Rupert Brooke)
* Out to where the Essex Marsh… (Dodie Smith, Sabine Baring-Gould, Margery Allingham, The Battle of Maldon)
* Once a Rebel, Always a Rebel (Graham Greene and other Nottingham writers)

posted by paduasoy (5 comments total)

How can you talk of Stevenage, and not mention its greatest native son, Gary Younge?
posted by ivan ivanych samovar at 6:53 PM on December 28, 2022

That's lovely. Can confirm that welsh cakes are available at the boathouse in Laugharne. If I'm ever in GB again [likely] I'll check back on Literary Britain before going. TYFS.
posted by BobTheScientist at 2:19 AM on December 29, 2022

Here's another idyllic one: Tennyson Country part 2: The Wolds. Breakfast, countryside, church, pub, and beachcombing for Mrs P.
posted by paduasoy at 3:35 AM on December 29, 2022

Nice. I have'The Cambridge illustrated literary guide to Great Britain and Ireland.'
Always wanted to see Sarehole Mill, Hall Green, Birmingham were Tolkien lived as a child.
posted by clavdivs at 4:05 PM on December 29, 2022

I was in Laugharne in '97 and it was exactly as described then, even the fish and chip shop, and the looping documentary in the Boathouse. So many great memories. Thanks for posting.
posted by milkwood at 4:35 AM on January 6, 2023