5 Literary London Landmarks Every Book Lover Should Visit
Walk the streets that inspired the greats — five unmissable literary landmarks in London.
London Streets
Shakespeare's Globe, Bankside
The faithful reconstruction of Shakespeare's 1599 playhouse by the Thames — see his plays the way Elizabethan audiences did.
221B Baker Street
The world's first museum dedicated to a fictional detective — Holmes and Watson's famous lodgings, recreated in Victorian detail.
Charles Dickens Museum, Bloomsbury
The Georgian townhouse where Dickens wrote Oliver Twist — now a museum of manuscripts, letters and personal treasures.
Keats House, Hampstead
John Keats wrote some of his finest poetry in this Regency villa — including 'Ode to a Nightingale' — before his death at just 25. Today it's a museum celebrating his short, brilliant life.
Dr Johnson's House, Gough Square
Behind this unassuming Georgian door, Samuel Johnson compiled his mighty Dictionary of the English Language in 1755. The man who said being 'tired of London' meant being 'tired of life' lived and worked right here.