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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 twenty-first century.There are more than two hundred featured writers, with a short biography for each. The most famous diarist of all - Samuel Pepys - is there, as well as some of todayaEURO (TM)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.Vividly evoking moments in the lives of Londoners in the past, providing snapshots of the cityaEURO (TM)s inhabitants at work, at play, in pursuit of money, sex, entertainment, pleasure and power, A London Year is the perfect book for all who live in or love this eternal, ever-changing city.
Contents
200 diarists, including:James AgateElias AshmoleW.N.P. BarbellionTony BennAlan BennettJohn BetjemanJames BoswellElizabeth BowenFord Madox BrownFanny BurneyDora CarringtonAlan ClarkOssie ClarkJohn DeeCharles DickensBubb DodingtonMaria EdgeworthEdward VIDickon EdwardsGeorge EliotJohn EvelynMichael FaradayJoseph FaringtonCaroline FoxGeorge GissingAlec GuinnessNathaniel HawthorneDerek JarmanJohn KeatsOona KingCharles LambJames Lees-MilneHenry MachynThomas MooreHarold NicolsonMichael PalinSamuel PepysVita Sackville-WestJonathan SwiftW. M. ThackerayVincent Van GoghQueen VictoriaHorace WalpoleEvelyn WaughJohn WesleyVirginia WoolfJoan Wyndham
