Word: hampstead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Child of Poetry. After Harriet's death, Shelley devoted himself to his poetry in Hampstead, in Leigh Hunt's cottage, where young Keats was a fellow visitor, and in Geneva, where the glamorous Lord Byron was a neighbor. The Napoleonic Wars were over; the long golden age of travel on the Continent had begun. Shelley's household abroad included not only Mary, whom he married, but her sister, Claire Claremont, one of Byron's cast-off mistresses. His scandalous behavior shocked London, and he never returned to the city after 1818, later writing stanzas beginning "Hell...
Offstage Richardson is a complete homebody, living near Hampstead Heath with his wife and infant son. He is never seen in nightspots, and totes books to the theater to read between acts. He has never been rich, never-in his own estimation-poor: "I've been down to five pounds, but then that's quite...