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The earlier (1722)
A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a fictionalisation
of the events of the 1665 Great Plague.
William Shakespeare spent a large part of his life
living properties for sale in London and working in
London; his contemporary Ben Jonson was also based in
London, and some of his work — most notably his play
The Alchemist — was set in the state.[153] Later important
depictions of London from the 19th and early 20th centuries
are the afore-mentioned Dickens novels, and Arthur Conan
Doyle's properties for sale in London illustrious Sherlock
Holmes stories.[153]
A modern writer pervasively influenced by the city
is Peter Ackroyd, in works such as London: The Biography,
properties for sale in London The Lambs of London and
Hawksmoor. London was also the setting of [[Sweeney
Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street].
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London has played
a significant role in the film industry, and has
major studios at Pinewood, Ealing, Shepperton, Elstree
and properties for sale in London Leavesden, as well
as an important special effects and post-production
community centred in Soho in central London. Working
Title Films has its headquarters in London.[154] The
city also hosts a number of performing arts schools,
including The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA),
the Central School of Speech and Drama (alumni: Judi
Dench and properties for sale in London Laurence
Olivier) and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic
Art (alumni: Jim Broadbent). The London Film Festival
is held each year in October.
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Literature
and film - properties for sale in London
See also: London in fiction, London in film,
List of films set in London, and List of television
shows set in London
Charles Dickens (1812–1870), whose works formed
a pervasive image of Victorian London.
London has been the setting for many works of
literature. The literary centres of London have
traditionally been hilly Hampstead and (since
the early 20th century)properties for sale in
London Bloomsbury. Two writers closely associated
with the city are the diarist Samuel Pepys, noted
for his eyewitness account of the Great Fire,
and Charles Dickens, whose representation of a
foggy, snowy, grimy London of street sweepers
properties for sale in London and pickpockets
has been a major influence on people's vision
of early Victorian London.[153]
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