In The Arts
Pimlico is the setting of the 1940 version of Gaslight.
Post-World War II Pimlico was the setting of the Ealing comedy Passport To Pimlico.
In G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, Pimlico is used as an example of "a desperate thing." Arguing that things are not loved because they are great but become great because they are loved, he asserts that if merely approved of, Pimlico "will remain Pimlico, which would be awful," but if "loved with a transcendental tie and without any earthly reason" it "in a year or two might be fairer than Florence."
Barbara Pym used St. Gabriel's Church as her inspiration for St. Mary's in Excellent Women.
The area is the home of Francis Urquhart in Michael Dobbs's 1989 novel, House of Cards.
Alexander McCall Smith's on-line Daily Telegraph serial novel Corduroy Mansions is set in Pimlico.
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“The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.”
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