Portsmouth, a literary and pictorial tour /
Wingett, Matt,creator,cover designer.
...See Portsmouth through the eyes of writers such as Charles Dickens, Beatrix Potter, P.G. Wodehouse, H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Olivia Mannng, and even Mahatma Gandhi.  ...You will meet carousing sailors, enterprising bumboat women, obsessive fortune-tellers, fallen women, moral and immoral landladies, treacherous pilots, disapproving generals and many more characters both fictional and historical....  In this book you will discover: Which Portsmouth woman wrote America's first ever bestseller; Why St. Jago the monkey became famous at The Common Hard; What H.G. Wells hated about Portsmouth; Where Sir  Arthur Conan Doyle first set foot in Southsea; What Lawrence of Arabia was doing on the Solent; Where midshipman Peter Simple was sent for his cocked hat.  --  Cover, page [4]
...See Portsmouth through the eyes of writers such as Charles Dickens, Beatrix Potter, P.G. Wodehouse, H.G. Wells, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Olivia Mannng, and even Mahatma Gandhi.  ...You will meet carousing sailors, enterprising bumboat women, obsessive fortune-tellers, fallen women, moral and immoral landladies, treacherous pilots, disapproving generals and many more characters both fictional and historical....  In this book you will discover: Which Portsmouth woman wrote America's first ever bestseller; Why St. Jago the monkey became famous at The Common Hard; What H.G. Wells hated about Portsmouth; Where Sir  Arthur Conan Doyle first set foot in Southsea; What Lawrence of Arabia was doing on the Solent; Where midshipman Peter Simple was sent for his cocked hat.  --  Cover, page [4]
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