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London and its busy streets always felt like home to her.” How it Adds Description. London is a very large city in comparison with others, and you can emphasize its size via the adjective “enormous.” This shows your characters are impressed by its size, and it can also imply they’ve never seen such a large city.
London - Historic, Cultural, Financial: If the border of the metropolis is well defined, its internal structure is immensely complicated and defies description. Indeed, London’s defining characteristic is an absence of overall form. It is physically a polycentric city, with many core districts and no clear hierarchy among them. London has at least two (and sometimes many more) of everything ...
The historian Lisa Picard has written that the working class ‘lived life on the streets’ in Victorian London. Women and men worked on the streets selling wares. These flower girls are standing in front of St Paul’s Church – known as the actor’s church – in their ‘beat’ or place they sold. Adolphe Smith wrote that families ...
Audio description of the Tower of London by Mike Gatting Layout Plan of the Tower of London. The Tower was oriented with its strongest and most impressive defences overlooking Saxon London, which archaeologist Alan Vince suggests was deliberate. It would have visually dominated the surrounding area and stood out to traffic on the River Thames.
FitzStephen's Description has survived to us in several versions, some part of the biography of Becket, some independent (while some versions of the biography lack the Description). It has been printed and translated, in whole or extracts, a number of times since 1598, when Stow included a transcript in his Survey of London ; he appears to have had access to another version, not now extant.
26 de jun. de 2015 · London is a popular setting for literature – one often characterised by crime, confusion, filth and vice, and not just in Dickens’ time. Lucy Scholes explains.
In London, extreme luxury sat alongside extreme poverty. The poet and engraver William Blake composed his poem, ‘London’ in the summer of 1792, the same year in which the French Revolution broke out across the channel. The earliest draft of the poem is to be found in this Notebook, held at the British Library. 查看更多.
