London has been the setting for many works of literature. The literary centres of London have traditionally been hilly Hampstead and (since the early 20th century) Bloomsbury. Writers closely associated with the city are the diarist Samuel Pepys, noted for his eyewitness account of the Great Fire, Charles Dickens, whose representation of a foggy, snowy, grimy London of street sweepers and pickpockets has been a major influence on people's vision of early Victorian London, and Virginia Woolf, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century. COUNT 5
QSN1 Who witnessed first-hand and wrote about the Great Fire of 1666? ANS1 Samuel Pepys QSN2 What area has historically been the literary hub of London? ANS2 Hampstead QSN3 A more current, 20th century center for London's literary set is located where? ANS3 Bloomsbury QSN4 Which author's novels painted a dismal portrait of Victorian London? ANS4 Charles Dickens QSN5 What female writer is one of the leading literary minds of the 20th century? ANS5 Virginia Woolf