In Literature
Oscar Wilde mentions Curzon Street in two of his works: in The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Henry Wotton lives on Curzon Street, and in Lady Windermere's Fan, the notorious Mrs. Erlynne lives at 84A Curzon Street. In Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, Rawdon and Rebecca Crawley live in a very small comfortable house in Curzon Street, Mayfair. In "Mrs. Packletide's Tiger" by Saki, the wealthy Mrs. Packletide has a house on Curzon Street. It is also the location of the Junior Ganymede Club in P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster series of books (The Code of the Woosters). In The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie, Ruth and Derek Kettering also live on Curzon Street.
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