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WM Thackeray (Young Street)
This is the first of the two Kensington houses that Thackeray formerly lived in. It was here he wrote his masterpiece, Vanity Fair.
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TS Eliot
TS Eliot moved to Kensington in1957, following in the footsteps of two of his biggest literary influences – Ezra Pound and James Joyce.
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Henry James
US novelist Henry James lived at 34 De Vere Gardens for 10 years, and aimed to be ‘as bourgeoise as my means will permit’.
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WM Thackeray (Palace Green)
Thackeray called this, his last house, his ‘principal pleasure’.
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James Joyce
Joyce didn't stay in Kensington for long but did find time to marry his long-term partner, Nora, while here.
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Ezra Pound
Pound was an influential figure in literary London, and his visitors here included Ford Madox Ford and DH Lawrence.
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Walter Crane
Children’s book illustrator Crane enjoyed a bohemian lifestyle at his Kensington home.
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Radclyffe Hall
Hall was living at 37 Holland Street with her partner Una, Lady Troubridge when her novel The Well of Loneliness scandalised London society.
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Ford Madox Ford
Ford was working on his acclaimed novel The Good Soldier while living with Violet Hunt at 80 Campden Hill Road as her ‘paying guest’.
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Agatha Christie
The Queen of Crime wrote Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile while living at 58 Sheffield Terrace.
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Charles Morgan
Morgan enjoyed great success with his novels Sparkenbroke and The Voyage, which were written at 16 Campden Hill Square.
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Siegfried Sassoon
Number 23 Campden Hill Square was Sassoon’s last London home, living here from 1925 until 1932.
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