Editing Walworth (section)

== Mentions in culture ==
The district of Walworth features in [[Charles Dickens]]’ ''[[Great Expectations]]''; Mr Wemmick resides here in a small wooden cottage.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dickens.stanford.edu/dickens/archive/great/great_issue9.html|title=Issue 9: Previously, in Great Expectations...|publisher=Discovering Dickens|access-date=15 April 2021}}</ref>

Walworth is featured in the 2016 novel by [[Stella Duffy]], ''London Lies Beneath'', set in 1912.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20180916102900/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/20/london-lies-beneath-stella-duffy-review Review: Stella Duffy, ''What Lies Beneath''], ''The Guardian'', 20 October 2016</ref> It is also featured in the 2017 film ''[[The Foreigner (2017 film)|The Foreigner]]'', as the restaurant of the protagonist Ngoc Minh Quan is based in this district.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Busch|first1=Anita|last2=Fleming|first2=Mike Jr.|title=Jackie Chan To Star in 'The Foreigner' for STX Entertainment|url=https://deadline.com/2015/06/jackie-chan-to-star-in-the-foreigner-for-stx-entertainment-1201438647/|access-date=16 July 2015|work=[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]|date=5 June 2015}}</ref>

Enda Walsh's 2006 play, ''[[The Walworth Farce|The Walworth Farce<u>,</u>]]'' is set in a council flat near the Elephant & Castle.  A theme of the play is Irish migration and immigration.  Walworth had been a centre for Irish immigration since the nineteenth century.<ref>{{Cite web |title=British Library |url=https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/st-georges-cathedral-southwark-buckler |access-date=2023-04-25 |website=www.bl.uk}}</ref>