Editing Hanwell (section)

===In literature===
"Hanwell" is often used instead of "[[Hanwell Asylum]]". Otherwise Hanwell may be referred to as a point of reference in the space.

{{blockquote|So, setting about it as methodically as men might smoke out a wasps' nest, the Martians spread this strange stifling vapour over the Londonward country. The horns of the crescent slowly moved apart, until at last they formed a line from Hanwell to Coombe and Malden.|from ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' by [[H. G. Wells]] (1898)}}

{{blockquote|And I remember that as I lifted my head to listen, my eye caught an omnibus on which was written "Hanwell" ... Believing utterly in one's self is a hysterical and superstitious belief like believing in Joanna Southcote: the man who has it has 'Hanwell' written on his face as plain as it is written on that omnibus ... But though moderns deny the existence of sin, I do not think that they have yet denied the existence of a lunatic asylum. We all agree still that there is a collapse of the intellect as unmistakable as a falling house. Men deny hell, but not, as yet, Hanwell.|from ''[[Orthodoxy (book)|Orthodoxy]]'' by [[G. K. Chesterton]] (1908).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16769/16769-h/16769-h.htm|title=The Project Gutenberg eBook of Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton|via=Project Gutenberg|access-date=29 March 2015|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924202028/http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16769/16769-h/16769-h.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

{{blockquote|THE FLOWER GIRL [still preoccupied with her wounded feelings] He's no right to take away my character. My character is the same to me as any lady's.<br />
THE NOTE TAKER. I don't know whether you've noticed it; but the rain stopped about two minutes ago.<br />
THE BYSTANDER. So it has. Why didn't you say so before? and us losing our time listening to your silliness. [He walks off towards the Strand].<br />
THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER. I can tell where you come from. You come from Anwell. Go back there.<br />
THE NOTE TAKER [helpfully] Hanwell.<br />
THE SARCASTIC BYSTANDER [affecting great distinction of speech] Thenk you, teacher. Haw haw! So long [he touches his hat with mock respect and strolls off].|from ''[[Pygmalion (play)|Pygmalion]]'' by [[George Bernard Shaw]], 1912}}

A traveller describes his passage through the Lands of Dream:

{{blockquote|I hurried down&nbsp;... to the edge of the wood. Black though the darkness was in that ancient wood, the beasts that moved in it were blacker still. It is very seldom that any dreamer travelling in Lands of Dream is ever seized by these beasts, and yet I ran; for if a man's spirit is seized in the Lands of Dream his body may survive it for many years and well know the beasts that mouthed him far away and the look in their little eyes and the smell of their breath; that is why the recreation field at Hanwell is so dreadfully trodden into restless paths.|from "A Shop in Go-By Street" in the short story collection ''Tales of Three Hemispheres'', by [[Lord Dunsany]]}}

Hanwell is depicted in the opening story of ''An Unreliable Guide to London'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.influxpress.com/an-unreliable-guide-to-london/|title=An Unreliable Guide to London|website=Influx Press|access-date=20 February 2017|archive-date=21 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221010530/https://www.influxpress.com/an-unreliable-guide-to-london/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2016/07/28/an-unreliable-guide-to-london-book-review/|title=An Unreliable Guide to London – book review|website=Hackney Citizen |date=28 July 2016|access-date=30 September 2024}}</ref>  published in 2016 by [[Influx Press]]:

{{blockquote|All these goings-on in Hanwell buzz around the Clock Tower. Walk past it and you'll hear the town giving up its secrets in a tumble that sounds like a rush of water. Careful, you know you can catch rumour like a cold.|from "Beating the Bounds" by [[Aki Schilz]]}}