On a recent trip to the West St Cemetery in Durban, we stumbled across this monument to Charles Dickens of Bleak House. Needless to say, as avid literary tourists, we were fascinated by who erected this and when. Rumour has it that a cousin of Charles Dickens lived in the Eastern Cape at one point, could this be the link? Any information appreciated.
Literary Tourism is tourism that deals with places and events from fictional texts as well as the lives of their authors. This could include following the route a fictional character charts in a novel, visiting particular settings from a story or tracking down the haunts of a novelist.
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