3 May 2010

Weedon Grossmith, Anthony Hope, Elizabeth Jesser Reid, and Ram Mohun Roy at Bedford Square, Bloomsbury: Literary London #15

1 Bedford Square. Weedon Grossmith lived at this address from 1902 to 1919, some years after the publication of The Diary of a Nobody (1892).

41 Bedford Square. This was the address of Anthony Hope Hawkins (Anthony Hope) from 1903 to 1917. His best known work is The Prisoner of Zenda (1894).

48 Bedford Square. 'BEDFORD COLLEGE FOR WOMEN UNIVERSITY OF LONDON FOUNDED HERE 1849 BY ELIZABETH JESSER REID'.

49 Bedford Square. 'Ram Mohun Roy 1772-1833 Indian Scholar and Reformer lived here'.

52 Bedford Square. Between 1877 and 1881 Robert Bridges lived here with his mother as a physician. He would later become poet laureate, and perhaps is best known now for publishing Gerard Manley Hopkins's work.

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