Hampstead Literary Society looking for writers | Hampstead Highgate Express
Katy Amos Morgan McClaren and Ted Shergalis, founders of Hampstead Literary Society - Credit: Wu From the Romantic poets, to the likes of Robert Louis Stevenson, the du Maurier family, and George Orwell, Hampstead has inspired countless writers over the centuries. Indeed, Hampstead and the Heath have been the backdrop for many important works of literature. Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White opens with a moonlit walk on the Heath, while in Bram Stoker’s Dracula Lucy preys on children in a Hampstead churchyard and John Le Carré's spies were seen on the Heath the author loved so much.
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