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Literary Tour of Beacon Hill

August 7, 2016 | 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

$15

After the likes of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louisa May Alcott in the 19th century, another literary scene evolved on Beacon Hill in the 20th century.  But, how did it compare to the Victorian  “flowering of New England”?  Come explore a sampling of what some later writers with Beacon Hill connections brought to American literature.

See where these literary lights lived, wrote, and worked on the Hill.  Discover how their colorful, if not always happy lives and their highly personal style differed from their repressed and proper (or properly repressed) predecessors.

Meet your guide outside the Park Street MBTA Station at the corner of Park and Tremont Streets. General Admission is $15, Boston By Food Members: $5.

Details

Date:
August 7, 2016
Time:
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Cost:
$15
Event Category:
Website:
http://www.bostonbyfoot.org/tours/Flat_of_Beacon_Hill

Organizer

Boston By Foot
Phone:
617.367.2345
Email:
info@bostonbyfoot.org
Website:
www.bostonbyfoot.org

Venue

Corner of Park and Tremont Streets
1 Park Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
Phone:
617.367.2345
Website:
www.bostonbyfoot.orghttp://www.bostonbyfoot.org/tours/literary-beacon-hill-20th-century

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.