Carlyle Mansions

Carlyle Mansions is a block of flats located on Cheyne Walk, in the Chelsea area of London, England. Built in 1886, it was named after Thomas Carlyle, himself a resident of Chelsea for much of his life.^[1]

Carlyle Mansions is nicknamed the "Writers’ Block", as it has been home to Henry James, Erskine Childers, T. S. Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Ian Fleming and other noted authors.^[1]^[2]

Notable residents[edit]

No. 1: Richard Addinsell, English composer
No. 6: Thomas Hare, English political reformer
No. 11: Gordon Harker, English actor
- also Edward Robey, lawyer in the Acid Bath Murders case of the serial killer John George Haigh
No. 12a: Melton Prior, English illustrator and war correspondent
No. 19: T. S. Eliot, American poet and writer
- also the literary critic John Davy Hayward
No. 20: Robert Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist and novelist, author of The Riddle of the Sands
No. 21: Henry James, American novelist
No. 24: Ian Fleming, novelist, creator of James Bond
- also Sol Campbell, England and Arsenal football player
No. 27: W. Somerset Maugham, British novelist
Lionel Davidson, British novelist

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Carlyle Mansions, Chelsea". Victorian Web. Retrieved 23 October 2009.
^ Tagholm, Roger (2001). McGraw-Hill (ed.). Walking Literary London. McGraw-Hill Companies. p. 192. ISBN 978-0-658-01611-0.