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Authors - Kensington & Chelsea Walking Tour
London

Beatrix Potter, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde all called these elegant West London streets home. Find out what drew them here.

10 stops · 8.5 km

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J.M. Barrie

J.M. Barrie wrote Peter Pan in a garden study at this 1820s villa, across the road from Kensington Gardens.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie's home with her new husband, the archaeologist Max Mallowan, from 1930 to 1934, an address that later muddled her own memoirs.

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie called this "a happy house", the only home where she had a room just for writing, and here she finished Death on the Nile.

James Joyce

James Joyce married Nora Barnacle while living in this flat in 1931, then left England for good after the press hounded him out.

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot's last home, where Groucho Marx came to dinner and found the poet only wanted to talk about Marx Brothers films.

Henry James

Henry James delighted in this bright Kensington flat from 1886, apart from the "romping little wretches of children overhead".

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter was born in a house on this site and lived here for 47 years, drawing the rabbits, mice and other pets that shared it.

George Eliot

George Eliot died in this 1718 house just three weeks after moving in, a short walk from the site of Henry VIII's Chelsea manor.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest in this house, where his argument with the Marquess of Queensberry set off the chain of events that led to his arrest and imprisonment.

Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming's stylish 1930s bachelor flat, which he had to leave in 1941 because its blue skylight broke the blackout rules.

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