BL to Publish Collection of Travel Writing

British Library Publishing will issue a collection of travel writing early next year. This will be entitled The Writer Abroad: Literary Travellers from Anne Radcliffe to Evelyn Waugh. The book will be edited by Lucinda Hawksley, biographer, historian and promoter of the works of her ancestor Charles Dickens and the Dickens Foundation. UK publication is planned for February 2017 and according to Amazon, the book 

takes us on a literary journey around the world, through extracts from Arthur Conan Doyle in Australia, Aldous Huxley in India, Charles Dickens in Italy, Henry James in France, Mary Wollstonecraft in Sweden, and many more.

Details of the selections from Waugh’s extensive travel writing are not yet available in online sources.

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