Literature
- Lackington’s bookshop
- Lackington’s bookshop in Finsbury Square, where “above Half a Million Volumes are constantly on Sale”.
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The cities had a flourishing literary life :
- London was the home of numerous literary societies
- Edinburgh was “the Athens of the North”
- Bath was visited by literary travellers
Cities were also frequently described in literature :
The literary rendering of space and toponyms is a present-day object of study
