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Where the books were written, set, sold, printed and buried: from the Globe to the graves, the bookshops to the presses.
This season's book talks, festivals and exhibitions are in What's On: Books & writers
Chelsea's riverside terrace of writers: George Eliot died at No. 4, Rossetti kept a wombat at No. 16, Henry James and T. S. Eliot lived in Carlyle Mansions.
Writers' housesFree
The Queen Anne houses along the river have had more writers in them than any street in London. Dante Gabriel Rossetti moved into No. 16 in 1862 with Swinburne as a lodger and a menagerie that ran to a wombat and peacocks, which the leases are said still to forbid; George Eliot moved into No. 4 in December 1880 and died there three weeks later; and Carlyle Mansions at the western end housed Henry James, who died there in 1916, and later T. S. Eliot and Ian Fleming. Mrs Gaskell was born at No. 93 and Turner died at No. 119 under an assumed name.
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