Literary Pubs: Where writers and their characters prop up the bar
Many novelists, poets and playwrights enjoyed a pint after a day behind the typewriter and some of the pubs they visited are included here. Historians, philosophers, diarists and other authors of non-fiction literature also headed for the boozer after a hard working day. Writers also featured pubs in their works, sometimes under their real name, sometimes under a pseudonym. Charles Dickens is possibly the most prolific literary visitor of pubs, and many of them featured in his novels. In London, the Seven Stars in Aldwych became the Magpie & Stump in Pickwick Papers and the George in Southwark featured in…