Literary Connection in Brighton and Sussex

Lewes Carroll was a frequent visitor to Brighton’s Sussex Square and it is said that a tunnel in the private gardens there gave the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland.

Novelist, Graham Greene’s most famous work was Brighton Rock which followed the illicit dealings of the 1930s race gangs around Brighton.

Once the home to A A Milne, famous creator of Winnie the Pooh, the Ashdown Forest is where you’ll find Pooh Sticks Bridge. Pooh Corner Shop is in the charming village of Hartfield.

Virginia Woolf lived at Monks House, Rodmell, and her sister, Vanessa Bell, lived with artists Clive Bell and Duncan Grant at Charleston, Firle, which became a meeting place for "The Bloomsbury Group".

Rudyard Kipling lived at The Elms in Rottingdean before moving to Bateman’s in Burwash in 1902.

Film locations about literary works include Bolebrook Watermill in Hartfield which was the location for the film "Carrington" starring Emma Thompson, and the Bluebell Railway, Sheffield Park, which was used in the film "Room with a View" and the "Railway Children".