Fiction    From 1848 

Vanity Fair

Categories: Literature

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Vanity Fair

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Chiswick Square

The houses each side were built about 1680. Boston House built in 1740, on th...

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William Thackeray and Vera Lynn

We can't find any connection that Thackeray had with this area. Nearby are Di...

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Giles Lytton Strachey

Giles Lytton Strachey

Critic and biographer known professionally as Lytton Strachey.  At Cambridge he joined The Apostles.  Was a prominent conscientious objector in WW1. His Wikipedia page gives a comprehensive overvi...

Person, Literature

2 memorials
Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Born as Adeline Virginia Stephen in Hyde Park Gate, London. Drowned herself in the River Ouse Rodmell, Sussex by filling pockets with stones. Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived at no. 52 Tavistock S...

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous

9 memorials
Sir Walter Besant

Sir Walter Besant

Novelist and London historian.  Born Portsmouth. 1884 co-founded the Society of Authors. Secretary of the Palestine Exploration Fund. Originator of the People's Palace.  First president of The Hamp...

Person, Community / Clubs, History, Literature

3 memorials
George Borrow

George Borrow

Writer and traveller. Born George Henry Borrow, East Dereham, Norfolk. He travelled widely throughout Europe and Morocco and was also a great linguist. He caused a minor scandal, when, in a transla...

Person, Literature

1 memorial