In Popular Culture
Sherlock Holmes lived in a boarding house at 221b Baker Street, of which the landlady Mrs. Hudson provided some domestic service.
H. G. Wells satirized boarding houses of the Edwardian era in his novel The Dream (1924).
Lynne Reid Banks's novel The L-Shaped Room is set in a run-down boarding house.
Arnold, from the critically acclaimed Nickelodeon television show Hey Arnold!, lives in a boarding house owned by his grandparents.
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