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With\u00a0our Literary Footprints Festival<\/a> starting in a couple of weeks, here is the first in a new series of posts on London Literary locations. Michael Duncan<\/a> looks at Brown’s in Dover Street<\/p>\n

\"Browns<\/a><\/p>\n

Brown’s which opened in 1837 claims to be London’s first hotel. \u00a0It was opened by James Brown who was butler to Lord Byron and his wife who was maid to Lady Byron and was made up of four adjacent Georgian houses on Dover Street in Mayfair.\u00a0The idea was to create a stylish home from home catering for the “nobility and gentlemen up for the season”.<\/p>\n

It’s\u00a0famous for being where Alexander Graham Bell\u00a0made the first successful telephone call, for its connections with the Teddy Roosevelt and FDR and for being a favourite of Queen Victoria.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0there\u00a0are many literary connections. \u00a0Mark Twain appeared in the lobby in 1907 wearing his pyjamas reportedly causing gasps of astonishment from amazed Londoners as he chatted while displaying three inches of leg.<\/p>\n

Rudyard Kipling, who has a suite named after him at the hotel, completed\u00a0Jungle Book here.\u00a0Another regular, Agatha Christie, \u00a0published\u00a0 \u201cAt Bertam\u2019s Hotel\u201d \u00a0in 1965. \u00a0It is basically Brown’s Hotel thinly disguised but with a murderous twist.<\/p>\n

Add to that regular visitors Oscar Wilde (no surprise there), Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker and JM Barrie and you have a top destination for lovers of literature. \u00a0If you can’t afford a room, treat yourself to a cocktail at Donovan’s Bar on the Albermarle Street side of the hotel. \u00a0And if you don’t fancy that just stand outside and admire.<\/p>\n

\"Browns<\/a><\/p>\n

Michaels next walk for Footprints of London is The Wild and Wonderful Women of Soho <\/a>on Tuesday 16th September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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