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Greenwich in Literature

Major famous names have lived in, or written about, Greenwich & Blackheath

 

Geoffrey Chaucer c1343 - 1400

His famous pilgrims in the Canterbury Tales based through Deptford.

Christopher Marlowe 1564 - 1593

Buried in Deptford.

John Evelyn 1629 - 1706

Contempory of Pepys - lived in Deptford.

Samuel Pepys 1633 - 1703

Greenwich resident - Famous diarist saw the Great Fire of London from here and moved his belongings here.

Samuel Johnson 1709 - 1784

Greenwich resident

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Dickens frequently visited Greenwich and included many parts if it in his writings

Poet Laureate John Masefield (1878 - 1967)

Greenwich resident

Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis (1904 - 1972)

Greenwich resident

 

 

Monarchs - Astronomers - Visitors - Sailors

Architects: Jones | Wren | Hawksmoor | Vanbrugh

Authors: Shakespeare | Dickens | Johnson | Masefield | Pepys

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