Memento Mori (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Muriel Sarah Camberg
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1950’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1950’s, Authors or writers, Friendship, England or English people, Fear, Death or dying, London, Wealth, Old age or elderly people, Mortality, Telephones
- Locales: London, England
Places Discussed
*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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