Editing Camberwell (section)

===Literature===

[[Thomas Hood]], humorist and author of "[[The Song of the Shirt]]", lived in Camberwell from 1840 for two years; initially at 8, South Place, (now 181, Camberwell New Road). He later moved to 2, Union Row (now 266, High Street). He wrote to friends praising the clean air. In late 1841, he moved to [[St John's Wood]].<ref>'Camberwell', Old and New London: Volume 6 (1878), pp. 269–286 Date accessed: 13 February 2011.> http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45281</ref> The Victorian art critic and watercolourist [[John Ruskin]] lived at 163 [[Denmark Hill]] from 1847, but moved out in 1872 as the railways spoiled his view.<ref name="southlondonguide.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.southlondonguide.co.uk/camberwell/history.htm|title=Welcome to Camberwell Guide|publisher=Southlondonguide.co.uk|access-date=27 February 2011}}</ref> Ruskin designed part of a stained-glass window in [[St Giles' Church, Camberwell]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stgilescamberwell.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=57&Itemid=73|title=The Ruskin Window|publisher=Stgilescamberwell.org.uk|access-date=27 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116035609/http://www.stgilescamberwell.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=57&Itemid=73|archive-date=16 November 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Ruskin Park]] is named after him, and there is also a John Ruskin Street.
[[File:Peckham Rye.jpg|thumb|[[Peckham Rye]] Common]]
Another famous writer who lived in the area was the poet [[Robert Browning]], who was born in nearby [[Walworth]], and lived there until he was 28.<ref name="southwark.gov.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200159/history_of_southwark/1034/southwarks_historic_villages/3|title=Camberwell history – Southwark's historic villages|publisher=Southwark.gov.uk|date=26 January 2010|access-date=27 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110323165626/http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200159/history_of_southwark/1034/southwarks_historic_villages/3|archive-date=23 March 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Novelist [[George Gissing]], in the summer of 1893, took lodgings at 76 Burton Road, Brixton. From Burton Road he went for long walks through nearby Camberwell, soaking up impressions of the way of life he saw emerging there."<ref>Paul Delany, to ''[[In the Year of Jubilee]]''. London: J.M. Dent, 1994.</ref> This led him to writing ''In the Year of Jubilee'', the story of "the romantic and sexual initiation of a suburban heroine, Nancy Lord." Gissing originally called his novel ''Miss Lord of Camberwell''.<ref>Paul Delany, "Introduction".</ref>

[[Muriel Spark]], the author of ''[[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)|The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie]]'' and ''[[The Ballad of Peckham Rye]]'' lived, between 1955 and 1965, in a [[bedsit]] at 13 Baldwin Crescent, Camberwell.<ref>{{Citation | title = The Go-Away Bird | first = Ferdinand | last = Mount | newspaper = The Spectator | type = review of ''Muriel Spark, the Biography'' by Martin Stannard | url = http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/5258633/the-goaway-bird.thtml | access-date = 13 April 2016 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100618052705/http://www.spectator.co.uk/books/5258633/the-goaway-bird.thtml | archive-date = 18 June 2010 | url-status=dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref> The novelist Mary Jane Staples, who grew up in [[Walworth]], wrote a book called ''The King of Camberwell'', the third instalment of her Adams family saga about Cockney life. Comedian [[Jenny Eclair]] is a long-term resident of Camberwell, and the area features in her 2001 novel ''Camberwell Beauty'', named after a species of [[Nymphalis antiopa|butterfly]]. Playwright [[Martin McDonagh]] and his brother, writer/director [[John Michael McDonagh]], live in Camberwell. The 2014 novel ''[[The Paying Guests]]'' by [[Sarah Waters]] is set in 1920s Camberwell.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/14/paying-guests-sarah-waters-review-satire-costume-drama|title=The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters review – satire meets costume drama|date=15 August 2014|website=The Guardian}}</ref> In [[Daniel Defoe]]'s novel  ''[[Roxana]]'' (1724) the eponymous protagonist imagines her daughter, Susan, "drown'd in the Great Pond at Camberwell".

Nearby [[Peckham Rye]] was an important in the imaginative and creative development of poet [[William Blake]], who, when he was eight, claimed to have seen the Prophet Ezekiel there under a bush, and he was probably ten years old when he had a vision of angels in a tree.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/blake/accessible/introduction.html|title=Virtual books: images only – The Notebook of William Blake: Introduction|first=Colin|last=Wight|website=bl.uk}}</ref>