Editing Buxton (section)

== Literature ==
A series of four recent novels by [[Sarah Ward (novelist)|Sarah Ward]] – ''In Bitter Chill'' (2015), ''A Deadly Thaw'' (2017), ''A Patient Fury'' (2018) and ''The Shrouded Path'' (2019) – feature the fictional town of Bampton, which the author states "is partly based on Buxton with its Georgian architecture, [[Bakewell]], a well-heeled market town... and [[Cromford]] with its canal and fantastic industrial heritage."<ref>[https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/24K5-JOP?dm_i=24K5,76Z48,HG1MUU,T57SQ,1 Faber publications. Retrieved 15 January 2021.]</ref>

[[Bill Bryson]] recounts his visit to Buxton in his 2015 book ''[[The Road to Little Dribbling]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bryson |first=Bill |title=The Road to Little Dribbling |publisher=Penguin |year=2015 |isbn=9780552779838 |pages=345}}</ref>

[[Vera Brittain]] grew up in Buxton and in her memoir ''[[Testament of Youth]]'', she is critical of the town's snobbery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World War One At Home, Buxton, Derbyshire: Where Vera Brittain Trained as a Nurse |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01ws2bf |access-date=30 April 2022 |publisher=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>

Buxton is mentioned in [[James Joyce]]'s ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' at the beginning of chapter 10. Father Conmee, a Jesuit priest, encounters the wife of [[David Sheehy]] MP and in their exchange says that he "would go to Buxton, probably, for the waters".<ref>{{cite web |title=Ulysses, about 1.55 in |url=https://www.rte.ie/culture/2020/0610/1146705-listen-ulysses-james-joyce-podcast/ |website=www.rte.ie|date=10 June 2022 }}</ref>

The Victorian diarist [[Anne Lister]] recounts her visit to Buxton during August 1816 in her journal.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lister |first=Anne |date=16 August 1816 |title=Journal Entry SH:7/ML/E/26/2/004 |url=https://www.catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=CC00001%2f7%2f9%2f6%2f26%2f2%2f5 |website=WYAS}}</ref>

Buxton's [[St Ann's Well (Buxton)|St Ann's Well]] and [[Poole's Cavern]] were listed as two of the [[Seven Wonders of the Peak]], in [[Thomas Hobbes]]'s 17th-century book ''De Mirabilibus Pecci: Being the Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire'', commonly called ''The Devil's Arse of Peak''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=De Mirabilibus Pecci: Being the Wonders of the Peak in Darby-shire |url=https://www.wondersofthepeak.org.uk/objects/2-36/ |access-date=29 April 2020 |website=www.wondersofthepeak.org.uk}}</ref>''