Writers and the roads they lived in during 19th & 20th Centuries
Where the date when a writer lived at a certain address is known, it is given after the address.
Verily Anderson (1915 – 2010) St Johns Wood Park (during WW2) Writer of humorous children’s books
Oscar Asche ( 1871 – 1936 ) 22 Elm Tree Road Australian actor, writer & director of “Chu Chin Chow”
Matthilde Blind (1841 – 1896) 23 Townsend Road. German born English poet, fiction writer, biographer of George Eliot
Leon Paul Bluet pen name Max O’Rell (1847-1903) Acacia Road. French author & journalist. Wrote “John Bull & his Island” (1881)
Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889) 20 now 39 Avenue Road (1838-40) Novelist, playwright & short story writer
Walter D’Arcy Creswell (1896 – 1960) 8 Abercorn Place. NZ poet, journalist & writer
Clemence Dane (1888-1965). pseudonym of Winifred Ashton. 34 Hamilton Terrace. Novelist, playwright
George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) (1819 – 1880) The Priory, 21 North Bank (1863-1880).Novelist, poet, journalist, translator. Wrote here “Romola”, “Felix Holt” and “Middlemarch”.
Herbert Farjeon (1887-1945) 34 Loudoun Road.Shakespeare scholar
John Arthur Maundy Gregory (1877-1941 ). Abbey Lodge (Abbey Road Studios) 1930s Journalist, writer
Jeanie Hering, pseudonym of Marian Adams Acton (1846-1928). 45 Grove End Road & 14 (now 12 & 16)Langford Place. Scottish novelist
Thomas Jefferson Hogg (1792-1862) Clifton Road. Barrister & biographer of Shelley
Thomas Hood (1799 – 1845). 28 Finchley Road (Blue Plaque). Poet, author & humorist.
Bronson Howard (1842 – 1908) 15 Elm Tree Road. US playwright
Elizabeth Jane Howard CBE FRSL (1923 – 2014) Clifton Hill. Novelist
(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784 – 1850) 18 Elm Tree Road. Critic, essayist, poet
Thomas Henry Huxley PC PRS FLS (1825-1895) 38 (then 4) Marlborough Place. Research scientist
W W Jacobs (1863-1943) Elm Tree Mansions, Elm Tree Road (1937-1943). Author – “The Monkey’s Paw”
J K Jerome (1859-1927) 7 Alpha Place. English writer and humourist – “Three Men in a Boat”
Douglas William Jerrold (1803 – 1857) 15 Circus Road. Dramatist, writer, journalist, publisher (of Collins’ first article)
Hugh Johnson OBE ( 1939 – ) Burleigh House, Loudoun Road, on corner with Blenheim Road. Wine writer & horticultural writer.
Marie Connor Leighton (1865 – 1941) Vallambrosa, 40 Abbey Road. Sensation novelist.
Arthur Machen, born Arthur Llewellyn Jones (1863-1947) 12 Melina Place. Welsh author & mystic
Louis MacNeice CBE (1907-1963) 10 Wellington Place (1940s). Irish poet
Olivia Manning CBE (1908 – 1972). 26 Queen’s Grove Studios (1951), 36 Abbey Gardens, 10 Marlborough Place. Novelist, short story writer & playwright
Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) 5 Acacia Road. NZ modernist short story writer
Stella Margetson (1880-1992) 15 Hamilton Terrace. Author of “St Johns Wood – Abode of Love and the Arts”. Also archivist of the St Johns Wood Society.
William Cosmo Monkhouse (1840 – 1901) ?? Poet & critic
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) (1903 – 1950). Langford Court, Langford Place (1941). Novelist, essayist, journalist & critic
Max Pemberton ( 1863 – 1950). 34 Clifton Hill. Novelist.
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934) Finchley Road. Dramatist
Sir John Pope-Hennessy OBE, FBA, FSA (1913-1994) 74 Avenue Road. Art historian & scholar of Italian Renaissance art
James Pope-Hennessy CVO (1916-1974) 74 Avenue Road. Biographer & travel writer
Stephen Potter (1900 – 1969) Hamilton Terrace. Humorous author & critic
Dorothy Miller Richardson (1873- 1957) 32 Queen’s Terrace (1916-1938). British feminist writer & journalist
Clement Scott ( 1841 – 1904) 44 Clifton Road East (1871), 18 Clifton Hill. Playwright, translator, travel writer
John Simons ( 1938 – ) Journalist & author of ” Boys from the Wood ” a London childhood in the 1940s
Herbert Spencer (1820 – 1893) 7 Marlborough Hill (Gardens), Malvern House, 13 Loudoun Road, 64 Avenue Road. Philosopher, sociologist (“the survival of the fittest”), and biologist.
Stephen Harold Spender CBE (1909 – 1995) 15 Loudoun Road. Poet, novelist & essayist
Dennis Wheatley ( 1897- 1977) 8 St Johns Wood Park. Novelist – thrillers & occult novels
Mrs Henry Wood (1814 – 1887) 16 St Johns Wood Park. Novelist. “East Lynne”
Clarissa Dixon Wright (1947- 2014) 39 Elm Tree Road. Cookery book writer & TV personality
Dornford Yates (1885 – 1960 ) pseudonym of Cecil William Mercer. 22 Elm Tree Road. Novelist & short story writer.
Israel Zangwill (1863 – 1926). 5 Elm Tree Road. Inventor of Jewish genre novel
Louis Zangwill ( 1869 – 1938) 5 Elm Tree Road. Novelist
Press Barons
James Louis Garvin (1868-1947) 9 Greville Place. Editor of The Observer
Alfred Harmsworth (1865-1922) 95 Boundary Road. Owner of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror.
Clement King Shorter (1857-1926) 16 Marlborough Place. Founded the Sphere and the Tatler.
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