William Morris and Burne Jones lived and worked together at 17 Red Lion Square; Steele used to live in Bloomsbury Square, where later Disraeli and his father lived, at No. 5. George Borrow lived at 23 Hereford Square, South Kensington. Berkeley Square has a peculiar attraction for me, less because Horace Walpole had his home at 42, than because Colley Cibber dwelt as a very old man at No. 20. In the same way I am not so much drawn to Gower Street by the fact that in a greatly altered house there Darwin used to live, as I am to that shabby Percy Street, Tottenham Court Road, where Albert Smith had a house at which Sala once visited him. Walpole and Darwin are, of course, incomparably greater men than Cibber and Albert Smith, but these last two have a curious fascination for me. I read Smith’s Christopher Tadpole and The Scattergood Family when I was a boy, and his figure flits elusively in the background of Dickens’s reputation, wrapped in a very characteristic mid-Victorian bohemianism, and, without precisely knowing why, I have taken a sort of liking to him. Sala says he was a kind, cheery little man, who when he was at work at home wore a blue blouse. “I recall him,” he says, “as a sturdy-looking, broad-shouldered, short-necked man, with grey eyes and flowing locks of light brown, and large side-whiskers; later in life he wore a beard. His voice was a high treble.” His study in Percy Street was littered always with French novels, dolls, pipes, cheap jewellery, cakes of soap made in the image of fruit, minature Swiss châlets, fancy costumes, and such a miscellany of odds and ends that it had the appearance of an old curiosity shop. As for Cibber, I began by feeling contempt for him, because of the scorn Pope pours on him in The Dunciad, and the character for dulness that was imposed upon him by that savage satirist and his host of imitators. But when I read some of Cibber’s comedies (such as The Careless Husband, and Love Makes a Man) I found them amusing and clever in their fashion, certainly not dull, and when I dropped one day into the National Portrait Gallery and saw that coloured bust of him under a glass case and leering through the glass eyes that have been fitted into his head—I succumbed, and acquired a sneaking regard for the gay old coxcomb that is not yet beginning to cool. You cannot read his plays and his delightful Apology for his Life without getting interested in him; and then if you go and look at that bust you will feel that you know the sly, witty, shrewd, ruddy-visaged, not over clean, furtive, leery old rascal as intimately as if you had been acquainted with him in the flesh.

But if one set out to write of the homes and haunts of these minor celebrities this book would be endless; moreover, many amongst them that have some peculiar attraction for me might have no interest for any one else; and many that for special reasons mean a great deal to you might mean nothing at all to me. So, as the wiser course, I have, in the main, limited my survey to the houses of men and women who are considerable enough to be known, more or less, by every one who has even a nodding acquaintance with literature, and to that extent my chronicle is at an end.

INDEX

Addison, Joseph, [3], [28], [150], [339]
Addison Bridge Place, [199], [203]
Adelphi Terrace, [114], [223], [233]
Ainsworth, W. Harrison, [238], [334], [337]
Akenside, Mark, [3], [28], [150]
Albany, The, [199]
Albemarle Street, [181]
Albert Gate, Sloane Street, [334]
Albion Street, [296]
Aldermanbury, [19]
Aldersgate Street, [12], [17], [19]
Aldford Street, [178], [181]
Aldgate, [4]
Allingham, William, [259], [262], [276], [280], [281], [285], [343], [344]
Ampton Street, [275]
Arbuthnot, John, [31], [150]
Archer, Thomas, [2]
Argyll Place, [167]
—— Street, [167]
Arlington Road, [245]
Ashburton, Lady, [343], [344]
Atterbury, Francis, [31]
Austin, Alfred, [253]
Avenue Road, [245]
Ayrton, William, [207]
Bacon, Francis (Lord Verulam), [6]
Baillie, Joanna, [145], [194]
Baker Street, [328]
Balmanno, Mary, [233]
Barbauld, Mrs., [146], [220]
Barber, Francis, [102]
Barham, R. H., [238]
Barrett, Elizabeth, [331], [332]
Bartholomew Close, [19], [38], [50]
Barton, Bernard, [219], [222], [226]
Basire, James, [118], [120]
Bath House, Mayfair, [343]
Bathurst, Dr., [94]
Battersea, [26-35], [260]
Bayham Street, [314]
Beauclerk, Topham, [63], [114]
Beaumont, Francis, [20]
Bellott, Stephen, [14], [15], [16]
Bennet Street, [194]
Bentinck Street, [315], [328]
Berkeley Square, [344]
Besant, Sir Walter, [146]
Bird-in-Hand Court, Cheapside, [23]
Bishopsgate, [10]
Blackstone, Sir William, [80]
Blake, William, [9], [118-139], [271]
Blandford Square, [245]
Blessington, Lady, [338]
Bloomfield, Robert, [3]
Bloomsbury Square, [344]
Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, [26-35], [106]
Bolingbroke House, [26-35]
Bolt Court, [90], [117]
Bond Street, [265]
Boner, Charles, [279]
Borrow, George, [344]
Boswell, James, [59], [71], [79], [81], [82], [85], [86], [93-117], [118], [334]
Bouverie Street, [181]
Bow Lane, [19]
—— Street, [90]

Brawne, Fanny, [154], [156], [160], [163], [164], [165]
Bread Street, Cheapside, [4], [19]
Broad Street, Soho, [9], [118], [119], [130], [167]
Brontë, Charlotte, [303]
Brooks, Shirley, [316]
Brown, Charles Armitage, [154], [164], [166]
Browne, Hablot K. (“Phiz”), [316], [323], [328]
Browne, Sir Thomas, [4]
Browning, Robert, [9], [259], [281], [331], [332], [344]
Brunswick Square, [328]
Buckingham Street, Euston Road, [135]
—— —— Strand, [200], [315]
Bunhill Row, [19]
Burbage, Richard, [13]
Burke, Edmund, [59], [88]
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward, [76], [344]
Burney, Dr. Charles, [56], [106], [114]
—— Fanny, [56]
Burns, Robert, [194], [198]
Butts, Thomas, [124]
Byron, Lord, [9], [67], [68], [155], [167], [193-199], [200], [203], [286], [287], [321], [338], [340]
Cade, Jack, [10]
Camberwell, [236]
Campbell, Thomas, [200]
Campden Hill, [334]
Cannon Street, [10], [18]
Canonbury Tower, [76]
Carew, Thomas, [20]
Carlyle, Mrs., [279], [285], [286], [292], [318]
—— Thomas, [96], [198], [205], [210], [262], [263], [275-286], [291], [292], [293], [294], [296], [303], [304], [317], [321], [343], [344]
Carter Lane, [12]
Cary, Rev. H. F., [51]
Castle Street, Cavendish Square, [89]
—— —— Leicester Square, [63]
Cattermole, George, [238]
Cave, Edward, [88], [102]
Chancery Lane, [4], [328]
Charing Cross, [3], [4], [224]
Charlotte Street, [144], [332]
Charterhouse, [94], [188], [281], [296]
Chaucer, Geoffrey, [4]
Cheapside, [2], [4], [5], [17], [19], [20], [23], [24]
Chelsea, [254], [255-293]
Cheshire Cheese, the, [108]
Chesterfield, Lord, [103-105]
Chesterton, G. K., [128]
Cheyne Row, [275-286]
Cheyne Walk, [254], [255], [256-265], [273-275]
Chiswick, [36-51]
Christ’s Hospital, [200]
Churchill, Charles, [6], [44], [47], [48]
Cibber, Colley, [28], [344], [347]
Clarke, Cowden, [156], [240]
—— Mrs. Cowden, [317]
Cleveland Street, [314]
Clifford’s Inn, [220]
Cloth Fair, [10]
Cobbett, William, [200]
Colebrook Row, [219], [220], [221], [223], [224]
Coleridge, S. T., [156], [199-206], [208], [212], [213], [214], [215], [216], [223]
College Street, Kentish Town, [163]
Collins, Wilkie, [146], [318], [332]
Colman, George, [67]
Colvin, Sir Sidney, [150]
Condell, Henry, [19]
Conduit Street, Regent Street, [334]
Congreve, William, [150]
Constable, John, [143-145], [153]
Cornhill, [1], [2], [6]
Cornwall, Barry, [216], [238]

Coryat, Thomas, [19]
Covent Garden, [41], [109], [135], [200], [216], [217], [218]
Cowley, Abraham, [4]
Cranbourne Street, [38]
Craven Street, Strand, [50], [334]
Cripplegate, [6], [19]
Cross, John, [254]
Cruikshank, George, [238], [316], [334], [337]
Cumberland Market, [337]
Cunningham, Allan, [43], [59]
Darwin, Charles, [344]
Davies, Thomas, [109], [110], [113]
Day, Thomas, [187-193]
Dean Street, [41], [167], [338]
Defoe, Daniel, [6]
Dekker, Thomas, [19]
Denmark Hill, [334]
Dennis, John, [32], [220]
De Quincey, Thomas, [168-177], [206]
De Stael, Madame, [167]
De Vere Gardens, [331]
Devereux Court, [3]
Devil Tavern, [19], [108]
Devonshire Terrace, [239], [323], [332]
Dibdin, Charles, [245]
Dickens, Charles, [3], [146], [149], [153], [238], [239], [250], [286], [287], [294], [300], [311], [312], [313], [314-327], [328], [331], [332], [334], [337], [338], [343], [344]
—— Mrs., [303], [322]
Dilke, Wentworth, [154], [156]
Disraeli, Benjamin (Lord Beaconsfield), [167], [338], [344]
—— Isaac, [344]
Dobson, Austin, [294]
Dodsley, Robert, [96]
Donne, Dr. John, [4], [19]
Doughty Street, [316], [317], [318], [322], [323]
Dowden, Dr., [181]
Down Street, [280]
Dryden, John, [167]
Duke Street, [333]
Du Maurier, George, [146]
Dyer, George, [220], [232]
East Smithfield, [4]
Edmonton, [8], [225], [226-232]
Edwardes Square, [293]
Eliot, George, [245-254], [255]
Elm Tree Road, [233], [236], [238], [239], [240]
Ely Place, [10]
Emerson, R. W., [280], [281]
Enfield, [223], [225], [226]
Exeter Street, [89]
Felpham, [127], [136]
Fetter Lane, [90]
Fielding, Henry, [43], [71], [72]
Fields, Ticknor, [303]
Finchley Road, [237], [242]
Fitzgerald, Edward, [142], [153], [303], [305]
—— Percy, [89]
Fitzosbert, William, [1]
Fitzroy Square, [273]
—— Street, [314]
Flaxman, John, [120-139], [140], [167]
Fleet Street, [4], [8], [89], [108], [109], [181]
Fleming, Mrs., [76], [79]
Fletcher, John, [4], [18], [20]
Forster, John, [87], [149], [238], [294], [295], [318], [321], [322], [323], [331]
Fountain Court, [131], [134]
Franklin, Benjamin, [49], [334]
Friday Street, [18], [20]
Frith Street, [167], [181], [185]
Froude, J. A., [279]
Fulham Road, [266], [333]
Fuller, Thomas, [20]
Furnival’s Inn, [315], [316]
Gad’s Hill Place, [315], [324]
Gainsborough, Thomas, [64], [67], [130], [153], [337]

Gamble, Ellis, [38], [39]
Garrick, David, [43], [48], [50], [59], [96], [103], [110], [114], [153]
—— Mrs., [114]
Garth, Sir Samuel, [31]
Gay, John, [31], [150]
Gerrard Street, [42], [59], [167]
Gibbon, Edward, [328]
Gilchrist, Alexander, [123], [124], [131]
Gilman, Mr., [156], [223]
Globe Theatre, [12], [13], [18], [19]
Gloucester Place, [331]
Godwin, Mary, [181]
—— William, [216]
Goldsmith, Oliver, [59], [63], [68], [71], [76], [79], [80], [81], [82], [85], [86], [87], [88], [153]
Gore House, Kensington, [338]
Gough Square, [90], [95-109]
Gower, John, [18]
Gower Street, [344]
Gray, Thomas, [6]
Gray’s Inn, [90]
Great Coram Street,

[296]
—— George Street, [333]
—— Newport Street, [56]
—— Portland Street, [117]
—— Queen Street, [117], [118]
Greaves, Walter, [260], [262], [273]
Greek Street, [168-177]
Green Street, [120]
Greene, Robert, [13]
Grosvenor Square, [328]
Half Moon Street, [334]
Hall, S. C., [185]
Hallam, Arthur, [332]
—— Henry, [332]
Hamilton, Lady, [142]
—— Sir William, [275]
Hammersmith, [200], [271], [294]
Hampstead, [140-166]
Hampstead Road, [314], [334]
Hannay, James, [300]
Harley Street, [271]
Harmsworth, Cecil, [90]
Harry, M. Gerard, [266]
Hawkesworth, Dr. John, [94], [102], [103]
Hawkins, Sir John, [63], [93], [94], [108]
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, [294]
Haydon, Benjamin, [135], [156], [158], [181], [210]
Hayley, William, [124], [134], [140], [142]
Hazlitt, Mrs., [220]
—— William, [39], [156], [167], [181-186], [200], [203], [204], [205], [207], [216]
Heminge, John, [19]
Hercules Buildings, Lambeth, [123-124]
Hereford Square, [344]
Herrick, Robert, [5]
Hertford Street, [328]
Highgate, [156], [157], [199], [223], [259], [337]
Hind, Lewis, [271]
Hobbes, Thomas, [3]
Hogarth, Mary, [322]
—— Mrs., [50-51]
—— William, [36-51], [56], [63], [68], [79], [150]
Hogg, T. J., [177]
Holborn, [90], [226]
Holcroft, Thomas, [216]
Holland House, [339]
Holles Street, [9], [193]
Hone, William, [158], [223]
Hood, Thomas, [9], [223], [233], [235-245]
Hook, Theodore, [332], [338]
Hungerford Market, [314]
Hunt, Holman, [9]
—— Leigh, [68], [153], [155], [156], [158], [210], [285], [286-295], [318], [344]
Hunter Street, [334]
Irving, Washington, [38]
Islington, [76], [79], [219-221]
Isola, Emma, [227], [228], [231]
Ivy Lane, [94], [108]

Jeffrey, Francis, [275]
Jerrold, Douglas, [239], [294], [331]
Johnson, Mrs., [97], [98], [101]
—— Samuel, [3], [33], [43], [50], [52], [59], [60], [63], [68], [71], [72], [79], [81], [82], [86], [88], [89-117], [275]
Johnson Street, [314]
Johnson’s Court, [90]
Jonson, Ben, [4], [19], [20]
Keats, John, [6], [23], [153-166]
Kemble, John, [167]
Kemp, William, [13]
Kensal Green, [334]
Kensington, [293], [296], [299], [303-306], [311], [328], [338], [339]
—— Gardens, [300]
Kilburn Priory, [331]
King Street, Covent Garden, [200]
Kingsley, Charles, [255]
—— Henry, [255]
Kit-Kat Club, [150]
Knight, Joseph, [256]
Ladbroke Grove Road, [328]
Lamb, Charles, [6], [9], [39], [40], [51], [80], [86], [130], [156], [186], [200], [206], [207-232], [233], [234], [235], [236], [240], [241], [287]
—— Mary, [209], [213], [215], [216], [220], [222], [223], [224], [225], [226], [231], [233], [234]
Landor, Walter Savage, [208], [338]
Landseer, Sir Edwin, [238]
Langland, John, [1]
Langton, Bennet, [63], [72], [103]
Lant Street, [314]
Leathersellers’ Buildings, [3]
Lecky, Mrs., [281]
Leech, John, [328]
Leicester Square, [38], [39], [49], [52], [59], [60], [63], [81], [86], [88], [117], [120]
Lennox, Mrs., [108]
Levett, Robert, [102], [103]
Lewes, George Henry, [249], [253], [316]
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, [149], [322]
Little College Street, [314]
—— Queen Street, [212]
Lloyd, Charles, [215]
Locke, John, [207]
Lombard Street, [6]
London Bridge, [24]
—— Stone, [10]
Loudon Road, [245]
Ludgate Hill, [328]
Lytton, Lord, [242], [250], [328], [338]
Macaulay, Lord, [334], [340]
Maclise, Daniel, [149], [239], [255], [331], [338]
Macready, W. C., [331]
Maiden Lane, [271]
Manning, Thomas, [211]
Marchmont Street, [181]
Marryat, Captain, [238], [333], [338]
Marston, Philip Bourke, [9]
Marylebone Road, [288], [323], [332]
Massinger, Philip, [18]
Mathews, Charles, [197]
Matthew, Mrs., [120], [134]
Mawson Row, Chiswick, [36]
Mecklenburgh Square, [316]
Medwin, [177]
Meredith, George, [255]
Mermaid Tavern, [18], [19], [20]
Middleton, Thomas, [4]
Milbanke, Anna Isabella, [194], [197], [199], [340]
Mill, John Stuart, [9], [275]
Milnes, Moncton (Lord Houghton), [238]
Milton, John, [4], [19]
Monkwell Street, [14], [15], [16], [19]
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, [28]
Moore, Thomas, [67], [194]
Moorfields, [6], [153]
More, Hannah, [114]
Morland, George, [337], [338]
Morris, William, [37], [344]
Mount Street, [178]

Mountjoy, Christopher, [14], [15], [16], [17]
Moxon, Edward, [227], [228], [231]
Mulready, William, [167]
Munday, Anthony, [19]
Munro, Alexander, [281]
Murray, David Christie, [334]
—— John, [198]
New Street, [135]
Newgate Street, [200]
Newman Street, Oxford Street, [63]
Newton, Sir Isaac, [52-56], [207]
Nollekens, Joseph, [39], [140]
Norfolk Street, Strand, [200]
North Bank, [245]
—— End, Fulham, [71], [72], [73]
Northcote, James, [167]
Old Bond Street, [197], [334]
Old Buildings, Lincoln’s Inn, [328]
Onslow Square, [306]
Opie, Mrs., [198]
Oxford Street, [168], [169], [174]
Palace Green, Kensington, [311]
Pall Mall, [64], [200], [205]
Parson’s Green, [71]
Patmore, P. G., [185], [211]
Peckham Rye, [118]
Peel, Sir Robert, [242], [325]
Pennell, Mr. and Mrs. J., [260], [261], [265], [266], [267], [268]
Percy, Bishop, [117]
—— Street, Tottenham Court Road, [344], [347]
Philip, Mrs. and Miss Birnie, [267], [268]
Phillips, Sir Richard, [51]
Piccadilly, [199], [334]
Poland Street, [123], [167], [177], [178]
Pope, Alexander, [6], [26-35], [36], [106], [150], [155], [347]
Pope’s Head Alley, [2]
Poultry, the, [9]
Praed, W. Mackworth, [88]
Prior, Matthew, [3]
Putney, [255], [295], [328], [331]
Queen Anne Street, [271], [272], [273], [274]
Quiney, Richard, [12]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, [20]
Ralph, James, [36]
Reade, Charles, [334]
Red Lion Square, [344]
Reynolds, John Hamilton, [156], [223]
—— Sir Joshua, [33], [56], [59], [60], [63], [64], [67], [81], [86], [88], [103], [110], [114], [117], [130], [141], [153], [271]
Richardson, Samuel, [42], [68], [71-75], [97]
Ritchie, Lady Thackeray, [299], [300], [305], [306]
Robert Street, Adelphi, [223], [233]
Roberts, David, [272], [273]
Robinson, Crabb, [130], [233]
Rogers, Samuel, [67], [145], [194], [200], [203], [205], [339-343]
Romney, George, [135], [140-143], [337]
Rossetti, Christina, [9]
—— Dante Gabriel, [9], [255], [259], [260], [261]
—— W. M., [255]
Rowan Road, [294]
Rowley, William, [19]
Ruskin, John, [9], [265], [281], [334]
Russell Square, [303]
Russell Street, Covent Garden, [109], [216], [217], [218], [219]
St. Andrew Undershaft, [10]
St. Anne’s, Soho, [186]
St. Bartholomew the Great, [10]
St. Clement Danes, [89], [108]
St. Helen’s, Bishopsgate, [10]
St. James’s Place, [339]
—— Street, [199]

St. John’s Wood, [233], [236-245], [253], [254], [288], [331]
St. Martin’s Street, [52]
St. Olave, Silver Street, [15], [16]
St. Saviour’s, Southwark, [10], [19]
Sala, George Augustus, [316], [323], [325], [326], [344], [347]
Salisbury Court, [42]
Savile Row, [68]
Scott, Sir Walter, [145], [197]
Seamore Place, [338]
Selden, John, [20]
Shakespeare, Edmund, [18]
—— William, [6], [10-24], [106], [328]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, [156], [167], [177-181], [206], [287], [288], [294]
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, [67], [68], [194], [340], [343]
Shirley, James, [4]
Silver Street, [14], [16], [17]
Smith, Albert, [344], [347]
Smith, J. T. (“Rainy Day”), [120], [140]
Smith, Sidney, [316], [338]
Smollett, Tobias, [255]
Soho, [41], [42], [56], [59], [118-123], [130], [167-186], [338]
Soho Square,

[167], [168]
Southampton Street, Camberwell, [331]
South Moulton Street, [127], [129], [131]
Southey, Robert, [223]
Southwark, [10], [11]
Spencer, Herbert, [245]
Spenser, Edmund, [4]
Stanfield, Clarkson, [146], [149], [238], [272]
Staple Inn, [10], [90], [109]
Steele, Richard, [3], [150], [344]
Sterne, Laurence, [334]
Stevenson, Robert Louis, [150], [241]
Stothard, Thomas, [134], [271]
Strand, [6], [7], [8], [90], [105], [131], [315]
Stubbs, Bishop, [3]
Sullivan, Sir Arthur, [9]
Swift, Jonathan, [27], [31], [150]
Swinburne, A. C., [9], [255], [327]
Talfourd, T. N., [210], [216]
Tavistock Square, [324]
Taylor, John, [160]
Temple Bar, [19]
Temple, Rev. T. W., [117]
Temple, the, [6], [7], [10], [72], [80], [87], [177], [207], [216], [218], [296], [304]
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, [142], [150], [328], [332]
Terrace, the, Kensington, [328]
Thackeray, W. M., [88], [153], [208], [242], [296-313], [314], [315], [326], [328], [338]
Thames Street, [4], [18]
Thomson, James, [27]
Thornhill, Sir James, [41], [42], [52], [167]
Thrale, Mrs., [63]
Thurloe, John, [328]
Tite Street, [265], [266]
Tower, the, [10]
Trollope, Anthony, [312], [313], [326], [334]
Turk’s Head, [42]
Turner, J. M. W., [9], [260], [268-275]
Turpin, Dick, [153]
Twickenham, [31], [32], [35], [271]
Upper Cheyne Row, [286], [288], [291-293]
Vale, the, Chelsea, [266]
Vine Street, Westminster, [6]
Wallace, Charles William, [12], [14], [15]
Walpole, Horace, [255], [344]
Wanstead, [236]
Warburton, William, [33]
Wardour Street, [135]
Warton, Joseph, [28], [94]
Warwick Crescent, [331]

Watts, G. F., [262]
Watts-Dunton, Theodore, [23], [255]
Webster, John, [4]
Welbeck Street, [334]
Wellclose Square, [187]
Wellington Street, Strand, [315], [324]
West, Benjamin, [43], [63]
Westbrook, Harriett, [178], [181]
Westminster, [6], [333]
—— Abbey, [10], [134]
Whistler, James McNeill, [39], [256], [259-268], [271]
Whitefriars Street, [2]
Wilderness Row, Clerkenwell, [296]
Wilkes, John, [44]
Wilkins, George, [15], [19]
Williams, Anna, [101], [102], [106]
Will’s Coffee House, [216]
Wimbledon Park Road, [245-253]
Wimpole Street, [265], [331], [332]
Winchmore Hill, [236]
Wine Office Court, [76], [108]
Wood Street, Cheapside, [17], [19]
Woodstock Street, [89]
Wordsworth, William, [7], [8], [145], [205], [208], [216], [220], [222], [225], [226]
Yates, Edmund, [309], [310], [311], [312], [316], [331]
Young Street, Kensington, [296], [299], [303], [304], [305], [306]

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