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Literature Jane Austen in Bath Gay Street
Jane Austen lived in Trim Street, then in Gay Street (shown here), between (...)Northanger Abbey: the episodes in Bath Catherine Morland lived in Great Pulteney Street. As befits a novel in which the (...)
Persuasion Persuasion, Chapter XV
Persuasion, Chapter XIX
Sir Walter Elliott (Anne’s father) chose to (...)Matthew Bramble’s route through Edinburgh Roll over the button “Coach” to see the places Matthew Bramble catches sight of when entering (...)
Johnson’s poem London (1738) LONDON:
A POEM IN IMITATION OF THE THIRD SATIRE OF JUVENAL
Quis ineptae
Tam patiens urbis, (...)Johnson on London in Society (1753) The Adventurer n° LXVII, Tuesday, 26 June 1753:
Those who have passed much of their lives in (...)Johnson on London lanes (1763) Sir...
Sir, if you wish to have a notion of the magnitude of this city...
you must not be (...)Context in Humphry Clinker Humphry Clinker
My uncle proposes to make a circuit of all the remarkable scenes of this (...)Theatres Theatres in London Theatres in Edinburgh Theatres in Bath The Georgian Theatre in Richmond (...)
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Bath in Literature Tobias Smollett Jane Austen Sheridan’s The RivalsBath
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Literature in Edinburgh Smollett’s Humphry Clinker: Edinburgh
Matthew Bramble
Jerry
Mathew Bramble (2)
Lydia (...)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Literature in London The Pen and the City
London appears in various ways in eighteenth-century literature:
a (...)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Smollett Smollett’s Humphry Clinker: London Context in Humphry ClinkerHumphry Clinker in Bath (...)
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Johnson in London When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can (...)
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