Plaque

Joseph Conrad

Photograph by: London Remembers

Erection date: 1984

Inscription

Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, novelist, lived here.
Greater London Council

Site: Joseph Conrad (1 memorial)

SW1, Gillingham Street, 17

Conrad moved here following his discharge from the German Hospital.

2021: The house is for sale so the agents have done some digging: "It once served as a boarding house where Conrad shared quarters with a printer’s compositor and a diamond merchant’s clerk, among other occupants, in 1891, according to a 2011 biography of the writer titled “The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad,” by John Stape."

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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