Characters of Fitzrovia

by Marsha Rowe, Marsha Rowe

A wonderfully eccentric “Who Was Who” of a unique area in the heart of London.Between Oxford Street and Euston Road in London lies a mysteriously evocative area known as Fitzrovia. Its story is told here in idiosyncratic vignettes of characters past and present. For over 400 years the bohemian life of London has flourished here - artists and artisans, exiles and emigres, revolutionaries and radicals. Spies, princes and prostitutes all jostled in its streets. From publishing to bawdy houses to boxing rings, from homosexual haunts to music halls, Fitzrovia has celebrated the outrageous and the unconventional. Its music venues embrace everything from classical proms to night clubs, jazz cellars and the birth of British pop. To know Fitzrovia is to discover what made London, and how.

272 pages, Hardcover

First published November 29, 2001