Erection date: 22/4/2015
George Orwell, 1903 - 1950, Sir Stephen Spender, 1919 - 1995, wrote for Cyril Connolly's Horizon Magazine based here, 1940 - 1948.
Marchmont Association
University of London
WC1, Lansdowne Terrace, 2
Spender rented the ground floor and basement of this building, the upper floors of which were damaged in WW2.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine
An influential literary and art magazine. From a pdf issued for the unveiling...
Literary critic and writer. Â Born Coventry and was brought up in South Africa...
George Orwell was born in Bengal as Eric Arthur Blair, his father was a Briti...
Poet.  Born 47 Campden House Court, Kensington.  The Evening Standard carries...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Orwell, Spender & Cyril Connolly’s Horizon Magazine
Aims to promote the on-going improvement of Marchmont Street and the surround...
The plaque is between the windows on the ground and first floor.
Richardson's novel The Trap describes her time at no.6. Holyoake lived at no.4, formerly 1 Woburn Buildings, 1850 - 61.
Nearby Chiswick House was in the Cavendish family, 1758–1929, which explains their association with this church. The church's website sa...
On the wall behind are two baskets for flowers and some screw holes. And on the wall a little to the left of the photo is another similar...
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