Culture and Media
The square is described in William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair as the "Anglo-Indian district", where many retired officials of the civil service in India resided.
It was a filming location for the BBC's 2009 adaptation of Jane Austen's "Emma".
On the south-west side of the Square's central gardens is a bronze sculpture created by Naomi Blake to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee in 1977.
Until April 2011, No. 11 was the long-term home of author Ian McEwan, who set much of his 2005 novel Saturday, and the home of its leading character, brain surgeon Henry Perowne, in the square.
Novelist Jacqueline Winspear gives her 1920s detective Maisie Dobbs an office in Fitzroy Square.
The TARDIS stands in Fitzroy square for the duration of the 1966 Doctor Who series The War Machines.
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