William Makepeace Thackeray: Pendennis

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Arthur H. Beavan continued his survey of London locations referenced in Thackeray novels in Imperial London, 1901, with this look at Pendennis:

When Pendennis, senior, surgeon and apothecary of Bath, married, he brought his bride to lodgings in Holles Street, Cavendish Square; his son Arthur was sent to Greyfriars (Charterhouse) school.

At a certain club in Pall Mall (the Army and Navy or the Athenaeum), of which he was an ornament, Major A. Pendennis, Arthur's uncle, breakfasted, etc., and he lodged in Bury Street, St. James'.

In Lamb's Court, Temple, Arthur Pendennis (who reviewed books for a living and contributed to the newly-established Pall Mall Gazette) had chambers, and read for the Bar.

Mr. Harthur," reported Morgan, the Major's valet, " lives three pair high, sir, Mr. Warrington lives there too."

Captain Costigan lodged on the third floor of No. 4, Shepherd's Inn (possibly Lyon's Inn, the resort of gamblers and swindlers, and pulled down in 1863), situated between Wych Street and Holywell Street.

C. Jeames de la Pluche, Esq., had been in the service of Sir George Flimsy, of Flimsy, Diddler, and Flash, Berkeley Square, when he became a railway speculator and successful financier, and had luxurious chambers on the first floor, letter X, in the Albany - his "apartmince," he called them.

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