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The Regent's Park

Where Mrs Dalloway's other story happens: Septimus and Rezia on a bench, Peter Walsh walking through, the aeroplane writing in the sky above.

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Also in Outdoors & Nature and Royal London.

In Woolf's novel the June day that Clarissa spends preparing her party is also the day the shell-shocked Septimus Warren Smith spends in Regent's Park with his wife, watching the skywriting aeroplane and hearing the dead speak, before the walk to Harley Street and the end; Peter Walsh crosses the park between them, and the whole of London's middle is stitched together through it. The benches by the Broad Walk are the ones to read it on.

Where
The Regent's Park, NW1 4NR
Nearest station
Baker Street · 2 min walk

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Monday05:00 – 20:00
Tuesday05:00 – 20:00
Wednesday05:00 – 20:00
Thursday05:00 – 20:00
Friday05:00 – 20:00
Saturday05:00 – 20:00
Sunday05:00 – 20:00

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