About this Event
Author and historian Ollie Randall will be talking about his debut book, 'Writers in Writes', and the role that Norwood played in the story of cricket-playing writers.
'Writers in Whites' is the untold story of cricket's influential role in London's literary world, from the 1880s to the 1960s. P G Woodhouse used his cricket-playing to launch his writing career. J M Barrie modelled the pirates in Peter Pan after his cricket teammates. And Arthur Conan Doyle, who lived in Norwood in the 1890s, named Sherlock Holmes after a cricketer he played against. They all belonged to a network of cricket-playing writers, who collectively left a permanent legacy on English culture. Dr Randall will discuss why this network mattered , and why a cricket fixture at Norwood in 1892 was one of the literary cricketers' most consequential matches
Event venue & nearby stays
Phoenix Community Centre, 66 Westow Street, Croydon, United Kingdom
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