| History
- Literary Bath
As
well as the many dukes, duchesses, earls and
lords who enjoyed
Bath, the
Georgian city was home to many of the artistic
people of their time. Horace Walpole, Dr
Johnson, James Boswell and Thomas Gainsborough
frequented
Bath
's card
tables, concerts and balls.
Bath's MP was
Sir William Pitt. Jane Austen lived and wrote
in
Bath
at the
beginning of the 19th century and
Bath
is the
place where Charles Dickens wrote The Pickwick
Papers.
Click
here to visit The
Jane Austen Centre, Bath website
Click here to read and see pictures of ITVs
filming on the Crescent of Persuasion by Jane Austen
Click here to get copies of Jane Austen's
novels
Click
here to read an account of 'Pickwick in Bath'
taken from the Society's Newsletter archive and
written by Stephen Conlin
Click here to read what George Saintsbury, a
famous Crescent resident, retired professor of
English Literature and literary critic wrote
about Bath and literature
Click here to read about the BBC filming on the
Crescent of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Click here to see
our Bibliography on Bath and Crescent books
go to Bath History /
go to Bath at War /
go to Crescent
History / go to
Bibliography
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