Novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Vanity Fair
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Chiswick Square
The houses each side were built about 1680. Boston House built in 1740, on th...
William Thackeray and Vera Lynn
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Roy Porter
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