He told me about his father’s house in St John’s Wood. It was rather large and had a garden full ...
Follow up from "Boys from the Wood" Book One
People who dislike St John's Wood in fact and fiction
An early admirer of the semi-rural territory north of the Marylebone Road was Benjamin Disraeli’s fictional Duke of St James’ ...
Douglas William Jerrold was born in 1803 , the son of theatre manager Samuel Jerrold, and after two years in ...
Elizabeth Barrett's Arcady
Edmund Yates (1831 – 1894) was a novelist and dramatist, whose father had been an actor and theatre manager and his ...
1868 Map An 1868 map shows that many of the Elm Tree Road houses had been extended to give more accommodation ...
Ideals of the Eyre estate Elm Tree Road epitomised the ideals of the Eyre estate – seclusion, love of nature and ...
3 Hamilton Terrace Marjorie Proops . Agony aunt. 8 Hamilton Terrace Lee Remick. actress 30 Hamilton Terrace Yolanda Sonnabend artist 34 Hamilton ...
A publisher in the 'Wood'
Israel Zangwill (1864 – 1926) was probably the best known Jew in the English speaking world at the start of the ...
Katherine Mansfield and St John’s Wood Gerri Kimber The modernist short story writer Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923), born Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp, frequented or ...
Louis MacNeice (1908 – 1963) was an Irish poet who had been at Marlborough School, sharing a study with Anthony ...
how facts and fiction intermingle in St John's Wood
Vallombrosa at 40 Abbey Road “was satisfactorily invisible from the road. The solid garden gate and the high brick wall were ...
Marjorie Proops was born Rebecca Marjorie Israël in 1911 and married Sidney Proops in 1935. She became an agony aunt ...
