Editing St John's Wood (section)

===Literature===
* In [[Wilkie Collins]]'s 1859 [[sensation novel]] ''[[The Woman in White (novel)|The Woman in White]]'', Count and Countess Fosco live at No. 5 Forest Road, a fictional address in St. John's Wood.
* In [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s 1891 [[Sherlock Holmes]] story "[[A Scandal in Bohemia]]", [[Irene Adler]] lives in Briony Lodge, on Serpentine Avenue, a fictional address in St John's Wood.
* In the first instalment of [[John Galsworthy]]'s ''[[The Forsyte Saga#The Man of Property (1906)|The Forsyte Saga]]'', ''The Man of Property'' (1906), Young Jolyon lives with his second wife and family on Wistaria Avenue, a fictional address in St John's Wood.
* In [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s ''[[Jeeves and Wooster]]'' short stories and novels, written from the early 1920s onward, [[Bingo Little|Bingo]] and [[Rosie M. Banks|Rosie]] live in St John's Wood.
* The protagonist of [[J. G. Ballard]]'s 2003 novel ''[[Millennium People]]'' is a psychologist who lives in St John's Wood, which he abandons to join a middle-class rebellion.
* St John's Wood is the setting for [[Howard Jacobson]]'s 2004 book ''The Making of Henry'' and is the planned location for the Museum of Anglo-Jewish Culture in his 2010 [[Man Booker Prize]] winning novel ''[[The Finkler Question]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2004-05-31 |title=The Making of Henry  by Howard Jacobson |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2004/may/31/digestedread.theeditorpressreview7 |access-date=2023-12-08 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>