Episode 113: The Thing About Grosvenor Street

The Netherfield crew have all decamped for London, and Caroline wants to make sure that Jane knows all about it. This episode we’re checking out Grosvenor Street and its surrounding environs before paying a visit to the Bingley sisters.

Detail of Mayfair from Wallis’s Map (1775)

Selected Sources:

• Chancellor, Edwin Beresford. The History of the Squares of London: Topographical & Historical. K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, Limited, 1907.

• Flinn, Laurel J. “Elegant Buildings and Pestilential Alleys: Space, Society, and Politics in London’s West End, 1753-1873.” Dissertation, Johns Hopkins University, 2014.

• Historic England. “Grosvenor Square, Non Civil Parish - 1000807.” Historic England, October 16, 2019. https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000807.

• Inglis, Lucy. Georgian London: Into the Streets. Penguin UK, 2013.

• Lupton, Christina. “Notes.” In Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen, edited by James Kinsley. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford University Press, 2019.

• Pool, Daniel. What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist; the Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century England. Touchstone, 2007.

• Schlarman, Julie. “The Social Geography of Grosvenor Square: Mapping Gender and Politics, 1720–1760.” The London Journal 28, no. 1 (2003): 8–28. https://doi.org/10.1179/ldn.2003.28.1.8.

• Vickery, Amanda. Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England. Yale University Press, 2009. https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300188561.

• Weinreb, Ben, Christopher Hibbert, Julia Keay, and John Keay, eds. The London Encyclopaedia. 3rd ed. Macmillan, 2010. http://archive.org/details/londonencyclopae0000unse_y6d9.

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