Authors - Hampstead Walking Tour London | StoryStride: Walking Tours

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 here with his father around the end of the First World War, when he was teaching at Eton, where one of his pupils would become George Orwell.

John Keats

John Keats wrote Ode to a Nightingale here, under a plum tree in the garden if his friend Charles Brown is to be believed, and fell in love with the girl next door.

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 terrace of 1822, on land Henry VIII once kept as a royal hunting ground.

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