Fitzrovia: Longon's Bohemia - Hardcover
Fitzrovia, centre of London's pub-culture for much of the first half of the twentieth century, was christened by Tom Driberg and owes its name to the Fitzroy Tavern situated at the heart of the area.
In Fitzrovia: London's Bohemia, Michael Bakewell presents a fascinating picture of the men and women who created Fitzrovia. Packed with anecdote and fact, it describes Betty May's bizarre pub entertainment, Aleister Crowley's sinister interest in the occult and George Orwell's belief that pubs were 'the basic institutions of English life.' Fitzrovia: London's Bohemia conjures up the spirit of the characters who frequented the pubs of Fitzrovia and in doing so, recaptures a lost age of hedonism, high spirits and self-indulgent self-destruction.
In Fitzrovia: London's Bohemia, Michael Bakewell presents a fascinating picture of the men and women who created Fitzrovia. Packed with anecdote and fact, it describes Betty May's bizarre pub entertainment, Aleister Crowley's sinister interest in the occult and George Orwell's belief that pubs were 'the basic institutions of English life.' Fitzrovia: London's Bohemia conjures up the spirit of the characters who frequented the pubs of Fitzrovia and in doing so, recaptures a lost age of hedonism, high spirits and self-indulgent self-destruction.
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- PublisherNatl Portrait Gallery Pubns
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1855142562
- ISBN 13 9781855142565
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages64
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