London Authors

May 2015
Scene Arts, Outline Editions
Saunders Waterford 425gsm
560 x 760 mm


Dickens, Woolf & Smith are authors who have set their fictional stories in non-fictional London. Each adding in details about the place that they know, in order to give their characters context in which to live, work and play.

By picking out the geographic details of each novel it is possible to construct a map of the London each inhabits. Showing the ways the city has provided a changing backdrop, across the centuries.

Three colour hand screen-printed and blind-embossed edition of 30

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+ Maps Exhibition – Scene

London, Novel, Print, Map

 
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London Authors

© 2015 Andy Bolton

 
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Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, 1925 (set June 1923)

 
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Detail

Showing central London
© 2015 Andy Bolton

 
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Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, 1861 (set 1807–1835)

 
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Zadie Smith, White Teeth, 2000 (set 1975–2000)