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Books set in Kensington · Terra Lecta

Kensington

United Kingdom

29 books set in Kensington and 3 writers who were born, lived or died there.

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Books set in and around Kensington

Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell, AD 1949At London
Brave New WorldAldous Huxley, AD 1932At London
David CopperfieldCharles Dickens, AD 1850At London
Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens, AD 1861At London

Little WomenLouisa May Alcott, AD 1868At London

Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf, AD 1925At London

Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen, AD 1813At London

Sons and LoversD. H. Lawrence, AD 1913At London

DraculaBram Stoker, AD 1897At London

The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer, AD 1387At London

The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingHenry Fielding, AD 1749At London

The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle, AD 1902At London

The MoonstoneWilkie Collins, AD 1868At London

The Sign of FourArthur Conan Doyle, AD 1890At London

The War of the WorldsH. G. Wells, AD 1897At London

A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens, AD 1843At London

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's StoneJ. K. Rowling, AD 1997At London

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of AzkabanJ. K. Rowling, AD 1999At London

Season of Migration to the Northal-Tayyib Salih, AD 1966At London

The Lion, the Witch, and the WardrobeC. S. Lewis, AD 1950At London

A Study in ScarletArthur Conan Doyle, AD 1887At London

Around the World in Eighty DaysJules Verne, AD 1872At London

Henry IV, Part 2William Shakespeare, AD 1598At London

Richard IIIWilliam Shakespeare, AD 1597At Tower of London

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeRobert Louis Stevenson, AD 1886At London

The Invisible ManH. G. Wells, AD 1897At London

The Man Who Was ThursdayG. K. Chesterton, AD 1908At London

The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas, AD 1844At London

The Time MachineH. G. Wells, AD 1895At Richmond

Writers of Kensington

J. K. RowlingLived here
G. K. ChestertonBorn here
T. S. EliotDied here