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    The Literary Tour of London
    The Literary Tour of London
    The Literary Tour of London
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    The Literary Tour of London

    By Tom Laimer-Read

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    Ladies and gentlemen, roll up one and all for the strolling tour of a lifetime! Follow in the footsteps of some of Great Britain's greatest writers including Charles Dickens, Mary and Percy Shelley, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, E.M. Forster, Dr Johnson, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare!

    London is a city of literature and lust, of poverty and riches, of woe and wonder. Come experience the places that inspired and were influenced by some of the greatest writers of all time, and find out more about their sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, often scandalous and always fascinating lives.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Laimer-Read
    Release dateJun 18, 2014
    ISBN9781310884498
    The Literary Tour of London
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    Tom Laimer-Read

    Tom Laimer-Read is a writer who wants to make writing exciting. Tom went to various state schools in Norwich in various states of consciousness, where he enjoyed reading and not being at school. He was in a few bands that were fun, but didn't get much attention from the national press as they don't tend to report from local rugby clubs and village halls. In the late 1990s Tom headed to Manchester University to study English with a burgeoning love of The Smiths, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Joy Division, Inspiral Carpets, The Fall and Buzzcocks, certain that Manchester would be a hotbed of new musical mavericks and a place where more fantastic, original music would emerge. He was wrong. That year the Hacienda closed down, the pills, thrills and bellyaches dried up and the 24 hour party was over, never to be reignited during his ten years there, unlike the large I.R.A. bomb that did ignite and tore through the heart of the city causing widespread damage to it and the psyche of the people (who were already damaged enough) the summer before he arrived.Tom studied comic books, Dada and the contents of his navel, and was also in a few more unsuccessful bands, but became disillusioned with the stagnant music scene, taking up the mic in comedy clubs instead. He encountered many strange creatures declaring themselves to be comedians, and participated in a murky arena where lurked some extremely unusual, unsavoury individuals, moreso than any punk rock set-up could contain.After a while, this also got a bit samey, since the big clubs supported the more boring acts, so Tom went back to music, hooking up with fellow disaffected comedians Steve G., Tom 'Jim the Poet' Faucett and Adam Bowman. They formed The Chainsores and had some legendary performances, most of them seen by very few people. After the band's spectacular demise and a short-lived follow-up, The Casual Vandals, Tom moved back to his home town of Norwich and continued to perform solo comedy, edging in the political direction. Tom performed a show about the danger of I.D. cards at the Edinburgh Fringe called 'Freedom Come, Freedom Go', which not many people saw, and has run alternative comedy nights such as Normal Service Will Be Resumed Shortly and The Dysfunction Room, which were mostly ignored, as his books probably will be too.

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      The Literary Tour of London - Tom Laimer-Read

      The Literary Tour of London

      Written by Tom Laimer-Read and published by Let's Rock Publishing in 2014

      Copyright 2014 Let’s Rock Publishing

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      The tour should take approximately two hours, depending how quickly you walk and how long you stand around admiring the views.

      Introduction

      Greetings one and all! Today you will embark on an illuminating literary tour around London, visiting many places of interest that are connected to famous writers of old London Town. You will see how the places influenced their works, and how their works influenced London!

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      The Literary Tour of London Quick Link Contents

      A) Tavistock Square –Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens Part I, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats

      B) 87 Marchmont Street – Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley, George Orwell, J. M. Barrie

      C) 48 Doughty Street - Charles Dickens Part II, Sydney Smith, Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

      D) 17 Gough Square - Dr Johnson

      E) South Bank - Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare

      Let’s begin at our first stop, Tavistock Square, beside the Virginia Woolf statue.

      A) Tavistock Square - The Bloomsbury Group

      MAP LOCATION

      Here we are in Tavistock Square, the main headquarters of those irascible rakes and rogues The Bloomsbury Group. They formed in the 1920s, a small band of literary rebels, headed by Lytton Strachey, and

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