BOHEMIAN LONDON from Pre-Raphaelites to Punk
Language: English
Published by Oldcastle Books, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, 2017
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"The story of Bohemian London is one of drink and drugs, sex and death, excess and indulgence. It's also a story of achievement and success." Eminent artists and writers feature prominently in this fascinating book. In perfectly clean condition throughout with no markings or inscription. 14 x 22cms with 224pp. We regret we are no longer able to ship to Denmark. All profits to Amnesty International.
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- Title
- BOHEMIAN LONDON from Pre-Raphaelites to Punk
- Author
- RENNISON, Nick
- Publisher
- Oldcastle Books, Harpenden, Hertfordshire
- Publication year
- 2017
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1904048307
- ISBN 13
- 9781904048305
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Printing
- 1st Printing
London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won't, or can't, abide by the conventions of respectable society. For close to two centuries these misfit individualists have had a name. They have been called Bohemians.
This book is an entertaining, anecdotal history of Bohemian London. A guide to its more colourful inhabitants. Rossetti and Swinburne, defying the morality of high Victorian England. Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley in the decadent 1890s. The Bloomsburyites and the Bright Young Things. Dylan Thomas, boozing in the Blitz, and Francis Bacon and his cronies, wasting time and getting wasted in 1950s Soho.
It's also a guide to the places where Bohemia has flourished. The legendary Café Royal, a home from home to artists and writers for nearly a century. The Cave of the Golden Calf, a First World War nightclub run by the Swedish playwright August Strindberg's widow. The Colony Room, the infamous drinking den presided over by the gloriously foul-mouthed Muriel Belcher, and the Gargoyle Club in Dean Street where the artistic avant-garde mixed with upper-crust eccentrics. The pubs of Fitzrovia where the painters Augustus John and Nina Hamnett rubbed shoulders with the occultist Aleister Crowley and the short-story writer Julian Maclaren-Ross, wearing mirror sunglasses and clutching a silver-topped Malacca cane, held court for his acolytes and admirers.
The story of Bohemian London is one of drink and drugs, sex and death, excess and indulgence. It's also a story of achievement and success. Some of the finest art and literature of the last two centuries has emerged from Bohemia. Nick Rennison's book provides a lively and enjoyable portrait of the world in which Bohemian Londoners once lived, and perhaps still do.
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About the Author
Nick Rennison is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in the Victorian era and in crime fiction. He has written several Pocket Essential guides published by Oldcastle Books including Short History of the Polar Exploration, Roget, Freud and Robin Hood. He is the editor of two anthologies: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes and The Rivals of Dracula, both collections of short stories. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His debut crime novel, Carver's Quest, set in nineteenth century London, was published by Atlantic Books. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine.
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