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In 1912, an anthology called The Charm of London was published in Britain by Chatto and Windus. Compiled by Alfred H. Hyatt, it included several romantic watercolours of city views and short contributions from a range of authors from Dickens and Tennyson to George Gissing and Walter Besant. It is an upbeat, self-congratulatory volume; all of the contributors are either full of praise for Britain’s capital or, at the very worst, charmed by its idiosyncrasies.
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Hammond, M. (2006). ‘Amid the Dear Old Horrors’: Memory, London, and Literary Labour in The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft . In: Spiers, J. (eds) Gissing and the City. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524453_14
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