Memento Mori

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Memento Mori (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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*London. Capital city with many different areas determined by wealth and social position. For example, the successful novelist Charmian Colston and her husband, Godfrey, live in Vicarage Gardens, off Kensington Church Street. Godfrey’s sister Dame Lettie Colston, a pioneer penal reformer, has a house in Hampstead, where Lisa Brooke had a small brick studio house until her death. When the blackmailer Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew secures Lisa Brook’s inheritance, she moves to a hotel in South Kensington near Harrod’s department store. Alec Warner has a flat off St....

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