Every night in the month of April we'll be jumping from one literary London plaque to another, connecting each plaque to another literary figure commemorated elsewhere in London with a nugget of literary trivia. Creative collaborations, romantic entanglements, feuds, places-in-common, the links will vary, but over the course of 30 days we'll have covered poets, biographers, novelists, humourists, critics, thriller writers and more until we have arrived full circle back at plaque number one!
If you can guess what our next plaque might be, feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of the post.
27. Lytton Strachey, a founding member of the Bloomsbury Group. A portrait photograph of Strachey with fellow Bloomsbury-set icon literary hostess and patron of the arts Lady Ottoline Morrell can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery. Lady Ottoline was the inspiration for…
We'll be back tomorrow night with our next Plaque Tiddlywink. In the meantime, here's where to find tonight's plaque at 51 Gordon Square…
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