Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: London #39

 

 

'WILLIAM

WILKIE

COLLINS

1824–1889

NOVELIST

lived here'

 

Wilkie Collins lived at 90 Gloucester Place (now 65) from 1867 to 1888. Michael Sadleir unveiled this plaque in 1951. Along with many other authors he is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery (although his grave continues to elude me).

 

'ELIZABETH BARRETT

BROWNING

(1806–1861)

– POET –

LIVED HERE'

 

Barrett Browning lived at 99 Gloucester Place from 1835 to 1838, before moving to 50 Wimpole Street, which her father had bought. She was buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome.