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The River Wissey at Foulden Bridge - it is from here that John Crow and his cousin Mary boat 'with the smell of East Anglia' in the air in John Cowper Powys' A Glastonbury Romance (1932).
Kneel in St Margaret's Church, King's Lynn with mystic Margery Kempe - whose Book (c.1436) is seen as the first autobiography to be written in English. Walk the markets and waterfronts of what was once one of Britain's busiest seaports through the pages of Fanny Burney's diaries. Relive the tragedy of scholar Eugene Aram and watch out for the tomb slab of a certain Robinson Cruso - here when Daniel Defoe visited town. From Lynn, head out into the 'Age of Possibility' of Rose Tremain's Restoration (1989) and enter the 'low and liquid world' of Graham Swift's Waterland (1983) - in a soggy, swampy Fenland so reviled by Anthony Trollope and Lisa St Aubin de Terán. Here is the Fenedge (1992) of Fay Weldon and the ancestry of inimitable cartoonist Osbert Lancaster. Listen with D L Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey, through 'an eternity of winter', to the deathly toll of The Nine Tailors (1934), or track across the Nar Valley with Anthony C Wilson's more youthful 'Bones' detectives.
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