The skylight dilemma in Martin Chuzzlewit

The house central to the murder in Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit.  The London Walks 'Dickens and Shakespeare Literary Tour' leader told of addressing a group one day when the door of the house opened and the current owner appeared.  On asking if he had a dirty skylight the owner said, obligingly, 'yes, I do as a matter of fact, why?'

Ezra Pound's house in Kensington, London

Ezra Pound's house in Kensington, London between 1900 and 1914--only about 10 minutes walk from T. S. Eliot's home.

Julia at T S Eliot's former home, South Kensington

Julia at the TS Eliot house at South Ken.  Eliot's widow still lives at the house, with curtains permanently drawn. Apparently she wants to be buried at East Coker with Eliot--so the real estate developments planned for East Coker will be of interest.

Walking with Julia

Radclyffe Hall's house in Kensington, London.

Proust's bedroom--reconstructed

Proust's bedroom reconstructed at the Carnavalet Museum in the Marais district of Paris. His cork lined room is now part of a bank but it is, apparently, open to the public.  The furniture is now in the museum as part of a display of the bedrooms of important writers.

Jewish memorial Paris

French law

French law in action at the Palais de Justice,  an area of government action since Roman times.