Footprints of London

Both Anthony Trollope and his mother Fanny were proliflc and successful writers. Discover their real life and fictional links to Bloomsbury. Both Anthony Trollope and his mother Fanny were proliflc and successful writers. Anthony also brought the familar pillar box to our streets. Anthony, born in Bloomsbury is best known for the Barchester Chronicles and…

Both Anthony Trollope and his mother Fanny were proliflc and successful writers. Discover their real life and fictional links to Bloomsbury. Both Anthony Trollope and his mother Fanny were proliflc and successful writers. Anthony, born in Bloomsbury is best known for the Barchester Chronicles and Paliser novels where Catherdral towns and country houses often overshadow…

Explore Finsbury: home of radical magazines; setting of and inspiration for novels by Dickens, Gissing and Arnold Bennett . Finsbury’s narrow streets and courts provide the setting for many novels. We pass by novelist Arnold Bennetts’s Riceyman Steps, through George Gissing’s Nether World, see where Dickens’ Oliver Twist first met Mr Brownlow and meet the…