Editing Berkhamsted (section)

===Literary connections===
[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] was [[clerk of works]] at Berkhamsted Castle from 1389 and based his Doctor of Phisick in ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' on John of Gaddesden, who lived in nearby Little Gaddesden. [[William Cowper]] was born in Berkhamsted Rectory in 1731. Although he moved away when still a boy, there are frequent references to the town in his poems and letters. In the [[Victorian era]], Cowper became a cult figure and Berkhamsted was a place of pilgrimage for his devotees. [[Maria Edgeworth]], a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature who was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe, lived in Berkhamsted as a child in the 18th century.<ref name="npsGossoms"/> Between 1904 and 1907, the [[Llewelyn Davies boys]] were the inspiration for the author and playwright [[J. M. Barrie]]'s [[Peter Pan]].{{sfn|Birkin|2003|p=46}} A little later, novelist [[Graham Greene]] was born in Berkhamsted and educated at Berkhamsted School, alongside literary contemporaries [[Claud Cockburn]], [[Peter Quennell]], [[Humphrey Trevelyan]] and [[Cecil Parrott]].<ref name="guide"/> Children's authors [[H. E. Todd]] and [[Hilda van Stockum]] both lived in Berkhamsted. The comic character Ed Reardon from [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]]'s semi-naturalistic radio drama [[Ed Reardon's Week]] resides in Berkhamsted.