Showing posts with label Fitzrovia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fitzrovia. Show all posts
2 May 2010

George Bernard Shaw and Fitzroy Street, Fitzrovia: Literary London #11

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George Bernard Shaw lived here with his mother from 1881 to 1886, where he began his unsuccessful novel Cashel Byron's Profession . From...

Jeremy Bentham pub, University Street, Fitzrovia: Literary London #10

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The sign outside the Jeremy Bentham pub on University Street reads: 'Known for many years as the "Lord Wellington" it is sti...
30 April 2010

Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw, and Roger Fry at Fitzroy Square, Fitzrovia: Literary London #9

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Two plaques are attached to 29 Fitzroy Square, the upper one with the following information: 'George Bernard Shaw lived in this house ...

Charles Dickens and Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia: Literary London #8

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The Dickens family lived here, at 22 Cleveland Street (formerly Norfolk Street), on two occasions - the first (from 1816 to 1817), when Dick...

T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and L'Etoile, Charlotte Street, Fitzrovia: Literary London #7

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L'Etoile, at 30 Charlotte Street, was T. S. Eliot's favorite restaurant, and where Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis launched the magazin...

Coventry Patmore, 1984, and Percy Street, Fitzrovia: Literary London #6

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This blue plaque remembers that the poet and essayist Coventry Patmore (1823-96) lived here - at 14 Percy Street - from 1863 to 1894, a stay...

The Literary Pubs of Fitzrovia: Literary London #5

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The Fitzroy Tavern on 16 Charlotte Street was a key drinking spot in the pre-World War II years for such writers as Dylan Thomas, Julian Mac...
29 April 2010

Great Portland Street, The George, Fitzrovia: Literary London #4

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55 Great Portland Street. The George was one of the haunts of Dylan Thomas and lesser would-be scriptwriters.

Langham Street, Fitzrovia: Literary London #3

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My posts now are mainly culled from A Literary Guide to London by Ed Glinert (London: Penguin, 2000), which is a mine of information. There...