Writing Britain: About the exhibition
10/07/12
From William Blake to the 21st-century suburban hinterlands of J G Ballard, Writing Britain examines how the landscapes of Britain permeate great literary works.
BBC Radio 3 'blockbuster show of British literature’
Metro ****
Times 'there are rare jewels here'
BBC World Sevice 'enjoyable and insightful’
Over 150 literary works are on display, including many first-time loans from overseas and directly from authors: sound recordings, videos, letters, photographs, maps, song lyrics and drawings - as well as manuscripts and printed editions.
- JRR Tolkien: original artwork for The Hobbit
- JK Rowling: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone manuscript
- John Lennon: draft for ‘In My Life’
- Daphne Du Maurier: early plan for Rebecca
- Charles Dickens: manuscript for Our Mutual Friend
- Robert Louis Stevenson: manuscript for Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Charlotte Brontë: manuscript for Jane Eyre
- Lewis Carroll: manuscript of 'Alice's Adventures Under Ground'
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight earliest manuscript
- George Eliot: manuscript for Middlemarch
- Kazuo Ishiguro: manuscript for The Remains of the Day
- Hanif Kureishi: diary and manuscript for The Buddha of Suburbia
- JG Ballard: manuscript for Crash
- William Blake: manuscript for ‘London’
- ‘The Seafarer’ from the 10th-century Exeter Book
- Ted Hughes: notebook for The Remains of Elmet
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