Louise Allen

Walking Jane Austen’s London

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From prize-winning historical novelist Louise Allen, this book presents nine walks through both the London Jane Austen knew and the London of her novels! Follow in Jane's footsteps to her publisher's doorstep and the Prince Regent's vanished palace, see where she stayed when she was correcting proofs of Sense and Sensibility and accompany her on a shopping expedition — and afterwards to the theatre. In modern London the walker can still visit the church where Lydia Bennett married Wickham, stroll with Elinor Dashwood in Kensington Palace Gardens or imagine they follow Jane's naval officer brothers as they stride down Whitehall to the Admiralty. From well-known landmarks to hidden corners, these walks reveal a lost London that can still come alive in vivid detail for the curious visitor, who will discover eighteenth-century chop houses, elegant squares, sinister prisons, bustling city streets and exclusive gentlemen's clubs amongst innumerable other Austen-esque delights.
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262 printed pages
Publication year
2013
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Quotes

  • Laura Shas quoted8 years ago
    The unicorn of Scotland on the southern gates of Kensington Palace. The unicorn joined the English lion as a supporter of the royal coat of arms when James VI of Scotland became James I of England in 1603.
  • Laura Shas quoted8 years ago
    The Westbourne, one of London’s ‘lost’ rivers, flows down from Hampstead and was dammed in 1730 to form the Serpentine. In 1816 Harriet Shelley, wife of the poet, drowned herself here.
  • Laura Shas quoted8 years ago
    The Queen’s Temple in Kensington Palace Gardens was built as a summerhouse for Queen Caroline inc.1734. Some of the graffiti inside dates to 1821 when the whole of the Gardens was thrown open to the public on a daily basis.

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