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The First Bohemians - Life and Art in London's Golden Age (Paperback)
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The First Bohemians - Life and Art in London's Golden Age (Paperback)
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The colourful, salacious and sumptuously illustrated story of
Covent Garden - the creative heart of Georgian London - from
Wolfson Prize-winning author Vic Gatrell SHORT-LISTED FOR THE
HESSELL TILTMAN PRIZE 2014 In the teeming, disordered, and sexually
charged square half-mile centred on London's Covent Garden
something extraordinary evolved in the eighteenth century. It was
the world's first creative 'Bohemia'. The nation's most significant
artists, actors, poets, novelists, and dramatists lived here. From
Soho and Leicester Square across Covent Garden's Piazza to Drury
Lane, and down from Long Acre to the Strand, they rubbed shoulders
with rakes, prostitutes, market people, craftsmen, and shopkeepers.
It was an often brutal world full of criminality, poverty and
feuds, but also of high spirits, and an intimacy that was as
culturally creative as any other in history. Virtually everything
that we associate with Georgian culture was produced here.
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