Editing Chiswick (section)

== In the arts ==

{{further|Chiswick Mall#In culture}}

The novel ''[[Vanity Fair (novel)|Vanity Fair]]'' (1847/8) by [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies in Chiswick Mall. [[Louis N. Parker]]'s play ''[[Pomander Walk (play)|Pomander Walk]]'' (1910) has the imagined setting of "a retired crescent of five very small, old-fashioned houses near Chiswick, on the river-bank. ... They are exactly alike: miniature copies of Queen Anne mansions".<ref>{{cite book |title=Pomander Walk |last=Parker |first=Louis N. |page=[https://archive.org/details/pomanderwalkcome00parkuoft/page/13 13] |url=https://archive.org/details/pomanderwalkcome00parkuoft |quote=retired crescent. |year=1915 |publisher=Samuel French}}</ref> [[Ford Madox Ford]]'s ''[[Parade's End]]'' tetralogy (1924/28) contains many scenes set in Chiswick, where the Wannop family resides. The BBC adaptation of the literary work featured filming on Bedford Park's Woodstock Road.<ref>{{cite web |title=Woodstock Road Goes Back in Time a Hundred Years |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb299.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=10 September 2018}}</ref> [[Basil Dearden]]'s 1961 [[suspense film]] ''[[Victim (1961 film)|Victim]]'', starring [[Dirk Bogarde]] as the barrister Melville Farr, was set in Chiswick, and many of its scenes were filmed on Chiswick Mall, where Farr lived.<ref>{{cite web |title=When Dirk Bogarde Filmed In Chiswick |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=victimfilm001.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=23 August 2017 |date=29 July 2017}}</ref> On 20 May 1966 the Beatles filmed two of their earliest promotional films for the songs "[[Paperback Writer]]" and Rain in the grounds of Chiswick House.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 May 2016 |title=50 years since The Beatles filmed two groundbreaking music videos |url=https://chiswickhouseandgardens.org.uk/2016/05/20/50-years-since-beatles-filmed-two-groundbreaking-music-videos-chiswick-house-gardens/ |access-date=10 May 2022 |website=Chiswick House & Gardens}}</ref> The BBC sitcom ''[[My Family]]'' was set in Chiswick; it ran from 2000 to 2011.<ref name="W4 My Family">{{cite web |title=The End of My Family: BBC says goodbye to Chiswick's middle class Harpers after an 11 year run |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb268.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=1 August 2021 |date=28 March 2011}}</ref>
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