Literary Footprints

Literary Footprints is a series of walks celebrating London books and authors which takes place in October each year. The walks visit locations mentioned in novels, take you to the homes of famous authors and let you hear works read in the place they were written.

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When? October 2016 TBC

Where? Various London locations

Who? 2016 TBA

Website? Footprints of London

Twitter? @footprintsldn

Facebook? Footprints of London

Past Festivals? Andrew Whitehead, Jerry White, Richard Barnett

Festival Director? 2015 - Stephen Benton

2015 highlights includeD, a walk around Jane Austen’s London led by “Emma” in full costume, A literary history of Covent Garden, a walk following Mrs Dalloway as she goes to buy flowers for her party, a walk around literary Hampstead, Shardlakes’s London, retracing Daniel Defoe’s Journal of the Plague Year, readings of T. S. Eliot in the places his poems were set, a day of Shakespeare walks, Greek mythology on London buildings, Samuel Pepys walks, Dickens Night Walks and a walk looking at the Lives and Loves of the Bloomsbury Group.