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Its reputation stems from a period in the 19th century when
it became a sort of Victorian artists' colony: painters such
as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Short Term Let London J.
M. W. Turner, James McNeill Whistler, William Holman Hunt,
and John Singer Sargent all lived and worked here. There was
a particularly large concentration of artists in the area
around Short Term Let London Cheyne Walk and Cheyne
Row, where the Pre-Raphaelite movement had its heart.
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Short Term Let London Chelsea was
also home to writers such as George Meredith, Algernon
Swinburne, Leigh Hunt, and Thomas Carlyle. Jonathan Swift
lived in Church Lane, Richard Steele and Tobias Smollett in
Monmouth House. Carlyle lived for 47 years at No. 5 (now 24)
Cheyne Row. After his death, the house was bought and turned
into a shrine and literary museum by the Carlyle Memorial
Trust, a group formed by Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia
Woolf. Virginia Woolf Short Term Let London
set her 1919 novel Night and Day in Chelsea, where Mrs. Hilbery
has a Cheyne Walk home.
In a curious book, Bohemia in London by Arthur Ransome which
is a partly fictional account of his early years in London,
published in 1907 when he was 23, there are some fascinating,
rather over-romanticised Short Term Let London accounts
of bohemian goings-on in the quarter. The American artist
Pamela Colman Smith, the designer of A. E. Waite's Tarot card
pack and a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn,
features as "Gypsy" in the chapter "A Chelsea
Evening".
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