Following is a list of sites in London associated
with the authors
- ARNOLD, Matthew (1822-1888),
- Poet and Critic, lived here.
- ARNOLD, Sir Edwin (1832-1904),
- Poet and Journalist, lived and died here.
- BAGEHOT, Walter (1826-1877),
- Writer, Banker and Economist, lived here.
- BAGNOLD, Enid (1889-1981),
- Novelist and Playwright, lived here.
- BAILLIE, Joanna.
- Poet and Dramatist, born 1762, died 1851, lived in this house for nearly fifty years.
- BALLANTYNE, R.M. (1825-1894),
- Author of books for boys, lived here.
- BARRIE, Sir James (1860-1937),
- Dramatist; and other eminent artists and writers lived here.
- BARRIE, Sir James (1860-1937),
- Novelist and Dramatist, lived here.
- BEERBOHM, Sir Max (1872-1956),
- Artist and Writer, born here.
- BELLO, Andres (1781-1865),
- Poet, Jurist, Philologist and Venezuelan Patriot, lived here in 1810.
- BELLOC, Hilaire (1870-1953),
- Poet, Essayist and Historian, lived here 1900-1905.
- BENNETT, Arnold (1867-1931),
- Novelist, lived here.
- BENSON, E.F. (1867-1940),
- Writer, lived here.
- BESANT, Sir Walter (1836-1901),
- Novelist and Antiquary, lived and died here.
- Bestall, Alfred (1892-1986)
- Best known as artist and writer of Rupert Bear stories
- Betjeman, Sir John
- Poet, writer, and broadcaster, Sir John Betjeman (1906 – 1984)
- BLAKE, William (1757-1827)
- Poet and Artist, stayed here.
- BLYTON, Enid (1897-1968),
- Childrens Writer, lived here 1920-1924.
- BONHAM CARTER, Lady Violet, Baroness Asquith of Yarnbury (1887-1969),
- Politician and Writer, lived here.
- BORROW, George (1803-1881),
- Author, lived here.
- Bowen, Elizabeth (1899-1973)
- Anglo-Irish novelist
- BRAILSFORD, Henry Noel (1873-1958),
- Writer, Champion of Equality and Free Humanity, lived here.
- BROWNE, Hablot Knight alias (PHIZ) (1815-1882)
- Illustrator of Dickenss novels, lived here 1874-1880
- BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861),
- Poet, lived here.
- BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861),
- Poet, lived in a house on this site 1838-1846.
- BURKE, Edmund,
- Author and Statesman, lived here b.1729, d.1797
- BURNE-JONES, Sir Edward C (Coley) (1833-1898)
- Poet and Artist, and , Painter.
- BURNETT, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924),
- Writer, lived here.
- CAMPBELL, Colen (1676-1729),
- Architect and Author of Vitruvius Britannicus, lived and died here.
- CARLYLE, Thomas (1795-1881),
- Essayist and Historian, lived here.
- CHESTERFIELD, Philip 4th Earl of (1694-1774),
- Statesman and Author, lived in this house.
- CHESTERTON, Gilbert Keith (1874-1936),
- Poet, Novelist and Critic, lived here.
- CHRISTIE, Dame Agatha (1890-1976)
- Detective novelist and playwright, lived here 1934-1941
- COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834),
- Poet and Philosopher, lived here.
- COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834),
- Poet and Philosopher, lived here.
- COLLINS, William Wilkie (1824-1889),
- Novelist, lived here.
- CONAN DOYLE, Sir Arthur (1859-1930),
- Writer. Creator of Sherlock Holmes, lived here 1891-1894.
- CONRAD, Joseph (1857-1924),
- Novelist, lived here.
- COTON-BURNETT, Dame Ivy (1884-1969),
- Novelist, lived here 1934-1969
- Coward, Noel
- Author Lived here
- COWARD, Sir Noel (1899-1973),
- Actor, Playwright and Songwriter, born here.
- Cut-throat Lane - Slum
- Charles Dickens drew attention to the conditions in 1850 when he wrote of "a plague spot scarcely equalled for its insalubrity by any other in London". From 1846-8, life expectancy in the area was just 11 years 7 months - compared with the London average of 37. Today, singer Robbie Williams and actress Liz Hurley live in this area.
- DAY-LEWIS, C. (1904-1972),
- Poet Laureate, lived here 1957-1972.
- DE LA MARE, Walter (1873-1956),
- Poet, lived here 1940-1956.
- DE MORGAN, William (1839-1917),
- Ceramic Artist and Novelist, and his wife, Evelyn DE MORGAN (1855-1919), Artist, lived and died here.
- DE QUINCEY, Thomas (1785-1859),
- wrote Confessions of an English Opium Eater in this house.
- DEFOE, Daniel (1661-1731),
- Novelist, lived in a house on this site.
- DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870),
- Novelist, lived here.
- DICKINSON, Goldsworthy Lowes.
- this was the London home of Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, Author and Humanist. He was born 1862 and died 1932.
- DILKE, Sir Charles Wentworth (1843-1911),
- Statesman and Author, lived here.
- DOBSON, Henry Austin (1840-1921),
- Poet and Essayist, lived here.
- DOUGLAS, Norman (1868-1952),
- Writer, lived here.
- Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
- Author of Sherlock Holmes, had an unsuccessful medical pratice here.
- DRYDEN, John,
- Poet, lived here, b.1631, d.1700.
- DU MAURIER, George Louis Palmella Busson (1834-1896),
- Artist and Writer, lived here 1874 to 1895.
- ELIOT, George (Mary Ann Cross, nJe Evans) (1819-1880),
- Novelist, lived here.
- ELIOT, George Mary Ann Cross (1819-1880)
- Novelist, lived here.
- ELIOT, T.S., OM (1888-1965),
- Poet, lived and died here.
- FIELDING, Henry (1707-1754),
- Novelist of Tom Jones and Tom Thumb. Magistrate and founder of the "Bow Street Runners", the worlds first Police Force.
- FIELDING, Henry (1707-1754),
- Novelist of Tom Jones and Tom Thumb. Magistrate and founder of the "Bow Street Runners", the worlds first Police Force.
- FIELDING, Henry (1707-1754),
- Novelist of Tom Jones and Tom Thumb. Magistrate and founder of the "Bow Street Runners", the worlds first Police Force., lived here.
- FLECKER, James Elroy (1884-1915),
- Poet and Dramatist, was born here.
- FLEMING, Ian (1908-1964),
- Creator and writer of James Bond, lived here.
- FORD, Ford Madox (1873-1939),
- Novelist and Critic, lived here.
- FORESTER, C.S. (1899-1966),
- Novelist, lived here.
- FORSTER, E.M. (1879-1970),
- Novelist, lived here.
- FOSCOLO, Ugo (1778-1827),
- Italian Poet and Patriot, lived here 1817-1818.
- GALSWORTHY, John (1867-1933),
- Novelist and Playwright;
- GALSWORTHY, John (1867-1933),
- Novelist and Playwright, lived here 1918-1933.
- GASKELL, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn (1810-1865),
- Novelist, born here.
- GILBERT, Sir W.S. (William Schwenck) (1836-1911),
- Dramatist, lived here.
- Gillbert, W.S.
- Writer and Librettist.
- GISSING, George (1857-1903),
- Novelist, lived here 1882-1884.
- GOSSE, Sir Edmund (1849-1928),
- Writer and Critic, born here.
- GRAHAME, Kenneth (1859-1932),
- Author of Wind in the Willows, lived here 1901-1908.
- GRAVES, Robert (1895-1985),
- Writer, was born here.
- GRENFELL, Joyce (1910-1979),
- Entertainer and Writer lived herre in flat No.8, 1957-1979.
- GROSSMITH, George, Senior (1847-1912),
- Actor and Author, lived here.
- HAGGARD, Sir Henry Rider (1856-1925),
- Novelist, lived here 1885-1888.
- HALL, Radclyffe (1880-1943),
- Novelist and Poet, lived here 1924-1929
- HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928),
- Poet and Novelist, lived here 1878-1881.
- HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928),
- Poet and Novelist
- HARTE, Francis Bret (1836-1902),
- American Writer, lived here.
- HAWKINS, Sir Anthony Hope (Anthony Hope) (1863-1933),
- Novelist, lived here 1903-1917.
- HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel (1804-1864),
- American Author, stayed here in 1856.
- HAZLITT, William (1778-1830),
- Essayist, died here.
- HEINE, Heinrich (1799-1856),
- German Poet and Essayist, lived here 1827.
- HENTY, G.A. (George Alfred) (1832-1902),
- Author, lived here.
- HERBERT, Sir Alan (A.PH) (1890-1971),
- Author, Humourist and Reformist M.P. lived and died here.
- HILTON, James (1900-1954),
- Novelist and Scriptwriter, lived here.
- HOOD, Thomas (1799-1845)
- Poet;
- HOOD, Thomas (1799-1845),
- Poet, lived and died here.
- HOPKINS, Gerard Manley (1844-1889),
- Poet, lived and studied in Manresa House.
- HOUSMAN, A.E. (1859-1936),
- Poet and Scholar, wrote A Shropshire Lad while living here.
- HUDSON, W.H. (William Henry)
- writer
- HUNT, James Henry, Leigh (1784-1859),
- Essayist and Poet, lived here.
- IRVING, Washington (1783-1859),
- American Writer, lived here.
- JACOBS, W.W. (1863-1943),
- Author, lived here.
- James, C.L.R. (1901-1989)
- Political activist, novelist, playwright, historian and renowned cricket writer. From 1981 until his death on 31 May 1989, C.L.R. James lived at 165 Railton Road in Brixton
- JAMES, Henry (1843-1916),
- Writer, lived here 1886-1902.
- JEFFERIES, Richard (1848-1887),
- Naturalist and Writer, lived here.
- Jennings, Humphrey (1907-1950)
- One of the most renowned figures in documentary film making, he was influential as a film director, painter and writer
- JEROME, Jerome K. (1859-1927),
- Author, wrote Three Men in a Boat while living here at Flat 104.
- Johnson, Dr. Samuel, Writer
- JOYCE, James (1882-1941),
- Author, lived here in 1931
- KALVOS, Andreas (1792-1869),
- Greek Poet and Patriot, lived here.
- KEATS, John,
- Poet, lived in this house, b.1795, d.1821.
- KINGSLEY, Charles (1819-1875),
- Writer, lived here.
- KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936),
- Poet and Story Writer, lived here 1889-1891.
- Lamb and Flag
- Claims to be the oldest pub in
the area, has buckets of atmosphere. In December 1679
the poet Dryden was beaten up outside the pub by thugs
hired by the Earl of Rochester. It used to be called
the "Bucket of Blood", but the name put the tourists
off.
33
Rose St.
- LAMB, Charles Elia (1775-1834),
- Essayist, lived here.
- Lao She (1899-1966)
- China’s most famous 20th century author where he lived from 1925 until 1928
- LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930),
- Novelist and Poet, lived here in 1915.
- LEAR, Edward (1812-1888),
- Artist and Writer, lived here.
- LECKY, W.E.H. (William Edward Hartpole) (1838-1903),
- Historian and Essayist, lived and died here.
- MACAULAY, Rose (1881-1958),
- Writer, lived and died here.
- MacDonald, George (1824 to 1905)
- Scottish writer
- MACNEICE, Louis (1907-1963),
- Poet, lived here 1947-1952.
- MALLARME, Stephene (1842-1898),
- Poet, stayed here in 1863.
- MANSFIELD, Katherine (1888-1923),
- Writer, and her husband, John Middleton MURRY (1889-1957), Critic, lived here.
- Marlow, Christopher
- Playwrite Marlow was stabbed to death here by Ingram Frezer on the 30 May 1593. Frezer also happened to be Thomas Walsinghams, Elizabeth 1 spy master, servant. The official version tells of the fight, the conspiracy version say Marlows was a silenced by the government. Marlow was a popular playwright.
- MARRYAT, Captain Frederick (1792-1848),
- Novelist, lived here.
- MASEFIELD, John, O.M. (1878-1967)
- Poet Laureate, lived here 1907-1912
- MAUGHAM, William Somerset (1874-1965),
- Novelist and Playwright, lived here 1911-1919.
- MAYHEW, Henry (1812-1887),
- Founder of Punch and author of London Labour and the London Poor, lived here.
- MEE, Arthur (1875-1943),
- Journalist, Author and Topographer, lived here.
- MELVILLE, Herman (1819-1891) - Author
- Author of Moby Dick, lived here in 1849
- MEREDITH, George, OM (1828-1909),
- Poet and Novelist, lived here.
- MEYNELL, Alice (1847-1922),
- Poet and Essayist, lived here.
- MILNE, A.A. (1882-1956),
- Author, lived here.
- MITFORD, Nancy (1904-1973),
- Writer, worked here 1942-1945.
- MOORE, George (1852-1933),
- Author, lived and died here.
- MOORE, Tom (1779-1852),
- Irish Poet, lived here.
- MORGAN, Charles (1894-1958),
- Novelist and Critic, lived and died here.
- MORRIS William
- Poet and Artist lived here 1860-1865.
- MORRIS, William (1834-1896)
- In this house lived from 1856-1859 , Poet and Artist, .
- MUNRO, Hector Hugh, alias SAKI (1870-1916)
- Short Story Writer, lived here
- NEWBOLT, Sir Henry (1862-1938),
- Poet, lived here.
- Novello, Ivor
- Singer Lived here
- NOVELLO, Ivor (1893-1951),
- Composer and Actor-Manager, lived and died in a flat on the top floor of this building.
- OCASEY, Sean (1880-1964),
- Playwright, lived here at flat No. 49
- ORWELL, George (1903-1950),
- Novelist and Political Essayist, lived here in 1945.
- ORWELL, George (1903-1950),
- Novelist and Political Essayist, lived here.
- OUIDA (Maria Louisa de la Ramée) (1839-1908),
- Novelist, lived here.
- PATMORE, Coventry (1823-1896),
- Poet and Essayist, lived here 1863-1864.
- PEAKE, Mervyn (1911-1968),
- Author and Artist, lived here 1960-1968.
- PEPYS, Samuel (1633-1703),
- Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty, lived here 1679-1688.
- PEPYS, Samuel.
- In a house formerly standing on this site lived Samuel PEPYS (1633-1703), Diarist
- PINERO, Sir Arthur (1855-1934),
- Playwright, lived here 1909-1934.
- PLAATJE, Sol (1876-1932),
- Black South African Writer, lived here.
- PLATH, Sylvia (1932-1963),
- Poet lived here 1960-1961.
- POPE, Alexander (1688-1744),
- Poet, lived in this row, Mawsons Buildings 1716-1719.
- Pound, Ezra (1885-1972)
- American poet
- PRIESTLEY, J.B. (1894-1984),
- Novelist, Playwright and Essayist, lived here.
- Rattigan, Sir Terence (1911-1977) - playwright
- One of Britain’s most successful and prolific play/screen wrights of the twentieth century. His works include “Man and Boy”, “French Without Tears”. “Flare Path”, “The Winslow Boy”, “Playbill”, “The Deep Blue Sea”, “Brighton Rock”, “The Browning Version”
- RED HOUSE,
- built in 1859-1860 by Philip WEBB, Architect for William MORRIS, Poet and Artist who lived here 1860-1865.
- Rhys, Jean (1890-1979)
- Caribbean-born writer
- RIZAL, Dr José (1861-1896),
- Writer and National Hero of the Philippines, lived here.
- ROSENBERG, Isaac (1890-1918),
- Poet and Painter, lived in the East End and studied here.
- ROSSETTI, Christina Georgina (1830-1894),
- Poetess, lived and died here.
- ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882),
- Poet and Painter
- ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882),
- Poet and Painter, born here.
- ROTHENSTEIN, Sir William (1872-1945)
- Painter and Writer lived here 1899-1902.
- Rushton, Willie
- Comic, writer, radio presentor. Also ace player of the game Mornington Cresent
- SACKVILLE, Charles , Earl of Dorset (1638-1706),
- Poet;
- Saffron Hill - Slum
- This was a notorious criminal ghetto. Dickens wrote about in Oliver Twist.
- SASSOON, Siegfried (1886-1967),
- Writer, lived here 1925-1932.
- SAYERS, Dorothy L. (1893-1957),
- Writer of Detective Stories, lived here 1921-1929.
- SCAWEN-BLUNT, Wilfrid (1840-1922),
- Diplomat, Poet and Traveller, Founder of Crabbet Park Arabian stud, lived here.
- SCHREINER, Olive (1855-1920),
- Author, lived here.
- SEFERIS, George (1900-1971),
- Greek Ambassador, Poet and Nobel Laureate, lived here 1957-1962.
- SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950),
- Author and Playwright.
- SHAW, George Bernard,
- Writer. Lived in this house from 1887-1898. From the coffers of his genius he enriched the world.
- Shelley, Mary (1797-1851)
- author of Frankenstein and wife of the poet, Percy Shelley. Lived here from 1846 until her death in 1851,
- SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822),
- Poet, lived here.
- SHELLEY, Mary (1797-1851)
- Author of Frankenstein lived here, 1846 to 1851
- SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley (1751-1816),
- Dramatist and Statesman, lived here 1795-1802.
- SHERIDAN, Richard Brinsley,
- Dramatist, lived here, b.1751, d.1816.
- SITWELL, Dame Edith (1887-1964),
- Poet, lived here in Flat 42.
- SMILES, Samuel (1812-1904),
- Author of Self Help, lived here.
- Smith, Florence Margaret(1902 – 1971), otherwise known as Stevie
- One of the 20th century’s most distinctive and original poet
- SMITH, Sydney (1771-1845),
- Author and Wit, lived here..
- SMOLLETT, Tobias (1721-1771),
- Novelist, lived in part of the house from 1750 to 1762.
- SOSEKI, Natsume (1867-1916)
- Japanese Novelist lived here 1901-1902
- STANLEY, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904),
- Explorer and Writer, lived and died here.
- STEPHEN, Sir Leslie (1832-1904),
- Scholar and Writer, lived here.
- STEPHEN, Virginia (Virginia Woolf) (1882-1941),
- Novelist and Critic, lived here 1907-1911.
- STOKER, Bram (1847-1912),
- Author of Dracula, lived here.
- SVEVO, Italo (alias for) SCHMITZ, Ettore (1861-1928),
- Writer, lived here 1903-1913.
- SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles (1837-1909),
- Poet, lived here.
- SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles (1837-1909),
- Poet and his friend, Theodore WATTS-DUNTON (1832-1914), Poet, Novelist, Critic, lived and died here.
- TAWNEY, Richard Henry (1880-1962),
- Historian, Teacher and Political Writer, lived here.
- TENNYSON, Alfred Lord (1809-1892),
- Poet, lived here in 1880 and 1881
- THACKERAY, William Makepeace,
- Novelist, lived here. Born 1811, died 1863.
- THOMAS, Dylan (1914-1953),
- Poet, lived here.
- THOMAS, Edward (1878-1917),
- Essayist and Poet, lived here.
- TROLLOPE, Anthony (1815-1882),
- Novelist, lived here.
- TWAIN, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910),
- American Writer, lived here in 1896-1897.
- WALEY, Arthur (1889-1966),
- Poet, Translator and Orientalist, lived and died here.
- WALLACE, Edgar (1875-1932),
- Writer, lived here.
- WATTS-DUNTON, Theodore (1832-1914)
- Poet, Novelist, Critic, lived and died here.
- WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966),
- Writer, lived here.
- WELLS, H.G. (1866-1946),
- Writer, lived and died here.
- WESLEY, Charles (1707-1788),
- Divine and Hymn Writer, lived and died in a house on this site, and his sons Charles (1757-1834), and Samuel (1766-1837), Musicians, also lived here.
- WHITE, William Hale (Mark Rutherford) (1831-1913),
- Novelist, lived here.
- WILDE, Lady Jane Francesca (Speranza) (1821-1896)
- Poet and Essayist lived here 1887-1896.
- Wilde, Oscar
- Author Lived here
- WILDE, Oscar OFlahertie Wills (1854-1900),
- Wit and Dramatist, lived here.
- WODEHOUSE, P.G. (1881-1975),
- Writer, lived here.
- WYCHERLEY, William (1640-1716),
- Dramatist.
- YEATS, William Butler (1865-1939),
- Irish Poet and Dramatist, lived here.
- ZANGWILL, Israel (1864-1926),
- Writer and Philanthropist, lived here.
- ZOLA, Emile (1840-1902),
- French Novelist, lived here 1898-1899.
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