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Tag: literature

Arnold Close, HA3

10 November 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Matthew Arnold (December 24, 1822 – April 15, 1888) was a  poet and critic who later worked as…

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Filed under: Harrow, Harrow School, Kenton, literature, streets named after literary figures, streets named after Oxford graduates

Barset Road, SE15

29 October 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Thought to be a reference to Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, set in rural Victorian Wiltshire – set in…

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Filed under: literature, Nunhead, Nunhead and Queen's Road, Southwark, streets named after literary figures

Evelina Road, SE15

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Place Name Thought to be a reference to the novel Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the…

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Filed under: literature, Nunhead, Nunhead and Queen's Road, Southwark, streets named after literary figures, streets named after women

Tabard Street, SE1

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Place name Formerly Kent Street or, as it would have been known to Geoffrey Chaucer author of the Canterbury Tales…

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Filed under: Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer, literature, Southwark, streets named after pubs

Pickwick Road, SE21

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Place Name Samuel Pickwick is the eponymous leader of the Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens’s widely successful first novel – originally told…

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Filed under: Charles Dickens, dickens, Dulwich, Dulwich Village, literature, Southwark, streets named after fictional characters, streets named after literary figures

Dorrit Street, SE1

30 September 2022 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Ironic name since Little Dorrit Court not far away is far larger. Charles Dickens wrote extensively about the notorious…

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Filed under: Charles Dickens, dickens, literature, Southwark, streets named after fictional characters, streets named after literary figures, streets named after women, women

Dombey Street, WC1N

31 December 2020 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name Originally East Street it was changed in 1936 in relation to the nearby New North Street but later…

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Filed under: dickens, literature, social history

Copperfield Way, BR7

5 June 2019 londonstreetguide Leave a comment

Place Name One of a cluster of streets named in honour of the great Victorian author Charles Dickens, the others…

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Filed under: dickens, literature

Dickens Drive, BR7

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Place Name One of a cluster of streets named in honour of the great Victorian author Charles Dickens, the others…

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Filed under: dickens, literature

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