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Oxford
United Kingdom
J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis, Phillip
Pullman
High-flyers are ten a penny in Oxford,
and sure enough, the city has inspired a host of literary household
names. Many of them were academics at the University of Oxford,
including J. R. R. Tolkien (who dreamed up Middle Earth while
teaching Anglo-Saxon history at Pembroke College), C. S. Lewis,
Oscar Wilde, William Golding and later Helen Fielding and Philip
Pullman.
Visit Oxford Botanic Gardens to sit on Will and Lyra’s bench
from the His Dark Materials trilogy, find the doorway to Narnia
along St Mary’s Passage or pay your respects to The Oxford Dodo
(which made its way into Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland) at the
Oxford Museum of Natural History. Worked up an appetite exploring?
Stop by The Eagle and Child pub on St
Giles’ where The Inklings literary discussion group once gathered
in the Rabbit Room.