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
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 ...
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 ...
Mrs Henry Wood (1814 – 1887) was a successful Victorian novelist. Born Ellen Price, she married Henry Wood, in 1836, and ...
Where the date when a writer lived at the address is known, this is given after the address. Abbey Road Abbey Lodge ...
Stephen Spender, the poet, and his wife Natasha, a classical pianist, lived in Loudoun Road from the 1940s with their ...
The arrival of blocks of flats Mansion flats appeared in London at the end of the nineteenth century. For example, Artillery ...
