A London year : 365 days of city life in diaries, journals and letters
2015
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'A London Year' is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the 21st century. There are more than 200 featured writers, with a short biography for each. The most famous diarist of all - Samuel Pepys - is there, as well as some of today's finest diarists like Alan Bennett and Chris Mullin. There are coronations and executions, election riots and zeppelin raids, duels, dust-ups and drunken sprees, among everyday moments like Brian Eno cycling in Kilburn or George Eliot walking on Wimbledon Common.
Main title:
A London year : 365 days of city life in diaries, journals and letters / compiled by Travis Elborough & Nick Rennison.
Imprint:
London : Frances Lincoln Limited, 2015.
Collation:
624 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780711235649 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
246997