Although Bournemouth may not be known as a town with a great literary history, it does have many links to literary greats.   Your guide will discuss these links as we tour Bournemouth's town centre, passing locations associated with Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Rupert Brooke and JRR Tolkien, to name but a few of the literati who have stayed or lived in the town.   Details of what they wrote here (Robert Louis Stevenson was particularly prolific) and what they said about the town will be revealed.  The full story of the Shelley family's link with Bournemouth will be covered at the grave of the authoress of "Frankenstein".   For light relief the works of Cumberland Clark, Bournemouth's "magnificently bad poet" will be among those freely quoted during the walk.

The walk normally starts outside St. Peter's Church and ends at Bournemouth Square.

Literary line-up: Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson and Frankenstein