Monday, November 08, 2004

Charlotte Street, W1

On October 18th 1831, four years after her husband's death, Catherine Blake died at 17 Upper Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square. In this last home, a contemporary report states, she called "continually to her William, as if he were in the next room, to say she was coming to him and would not be long now".

I am assuming that what was 'Upper Charlotte Street' is now Fitzroy street. Curiously, 17 Fitzroy st. has associations with Yeats and ocuultism (if I remember correctly) and is also very near where Lionel Johnson used to live. If anyone can confirm whether Fitzroy Street used to be 'Upper Charlotte St.' I would appreciate any info. Otherwise, I'll have to trudge to the British Library.

Yes, this is a rather obscure footnote, nevertheless..