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D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence lived on this street in 1915, the year he published The Rainbow, a novel considered so obscene that copies were burned outside the Royal Exchange.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley lived with his father in this house after graduating from Oxford, working a job in the City years before he published a word.

John Keats

John Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale and The Eve of St Agnes while living in the eastern half of this house with his friend Charles Brown, two years before he left for Italy.

George Orwell

George Orwell wrote much of Keep the Aspidistra Flying in a top floor flat here, before leaving Britain later that year to fight for the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath's children chose to place her blue plaque on this flat, where she wrote The Bell Jar and gave birth to her daughter Frieda, rather than at the Fitzroy Road flat where she later died.

W.B. Yeats

W.B. Yeats was homeschooled by his parents in this house from age two to eight, decades before Sylvia Plath died here.

H.G. Wells

H.G. Wells spent his final years in this John Nash-designed house, which was built in 1822 on land once used by Henry VIII as a royal hunting ground and sold for nearly thirteen million pounds in 2021.

Authors - Hampstead Walking Tour
London

Every Stop Has a Story

D.H. Lawrence

Aldous Huxley

John Keats

George Orwell

Sylvia Plath

W.B. Yeats

H.G. Wells

Ready to live the story?

Authors - Hampstead Walking TourLondon

Every Stop Has a Story

D.H. Lawrence

Aldous Huxley

John Keats

George Orwell

Sylvia Plath

W.B. Yeats

H.G. Wells

Ready to live the story?

Authors - Hampstead Walking Tour
London