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unusual facts about Wimpole Street


Wimpole Street

The street became famous from the play based on their courtship, The Barretts of Wimpole Street.



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Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood

His wife is mentioned in Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen, in a letter from Mary Crawford to Fanny Price while Fanny is staying with her mother and father in Portsmouth: I was there, two years ago, when Lady Lascelles had it, and I prefer it over any other house in London (She is talking about a house in Wimpole Street.)