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Literary Hertfordshire

Literary Hertfordshire is a collaborative project between the University of Hertfordshire and Hertfordshire County Council. The aim is to explore the county's rich literary heritage, providing snapshots of past and present Hertfordshire authors and build a place for local communities to discover their literary heritage.

Did you know for example that Pride and Prejudice was set in Hertfordshire or that Charles Dickens reported on the destruction of the west wing of Hatfield House when he was a reporter for the Morning Chronicle in 1835? Hertfordshire has many literary connections. See below for just some of the authors covered to date.

This area of the Herts Memories website is currently under development. Please email us at either literaryherts@herts.ac.uk or literaryhertfordshire@hotmail.co.uk if you have any queries or suggestions for authors you would like to see here.

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  • Apsley Cherry-Garrard
    Apsley Cherry-Garrard
    Author of The Worst Journey In the World, from Wheathamstead
  • Barbara Cartland DBE
    Barbara Cartland DBE
    Romantic Fiction author who resided in Essendon
  • Charles Dickens
    Charles Dickens
    Legendary 19th Century author
  • Daniel Defoe
    Daniel Defoe
    17-18th Century novelist and journalist
  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    19th Century writer and politician
  • Geoffey Chaucer
    Geoffey Chaucer
    Possible connections with Berkhampsted
  • George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish playwright who lived at Shaw's Corner, Ayot St. Lawrence from 1906-1950
  • George Orwell
    George Orwell
    Wigan Pier to Wallington
  • George Orwell Festival
    George Orwell Festival
    9th to 18th September 2011
  • Karl Marx
    Karl Marx
    A Brief Note on Hertfordshire from 1842
  • Lady Caroline Lamb
    Lady Caroline Lamb
    18-19th century author who lived in Brocket Hall
  • Little Miss Muffet
    Little Miss Muffet
    Origins in Brookmans Park?
  • Samuel Pepys
    Samuel Pepys
    17th-18th Century diarist and politician
  • Sir Thomas More
    Sir Thomas More
    15th-16th century statesman with Utopian ideas
  • Was Mrs Tiggy-Winkle a Hertfordshire Hedgehog?
    Was Mrs Tiggy-Winkle a Hertfordshire Hedgehog?
    Birth of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter was born on 28 July 1866.  Much has been made of her childhood in London ...
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon (2)

  • Henry Graham Greene

    Henry Graham Greene (0)

  • E.M. Forster

    E.M. Forster (2)

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