Wimpole Street


Great Mary le bone New Cavendish and Upper Mary le bone street is next in length and consequence but Devonshire or Delineations Topographical Historical and Descriptive (1816) By John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, et al

The row of houses on the North side of Tyburn Read was completed in 1729 and it was then called Oxford Street. About same time most of the following streets leading to Cavendish Square and Oxford Market were built and the ground laid for several others: Henrietta Street, Vere Street, Holles Street, Margaret Street, Wimpole Street, Princes Street, Bosover Street, Castle Street, John Street, Market Street, Harley Street, Wigmore Street, Mortimer Street, &e named from the title and family distinctions of the noble of Oxford and Portland.

Great Mary-le-bone, New Cavendish and Upper Mary-le-bone, one street. is next in length and consequence; but Devonshire, Weymouth, and Queen Anne-street West are superior in their buildings; all of which are eclipsed by Portland place, just mentioned, near 100 feet in width bounded by vast brick mansions ornamented with pilasters, pediments. and balustrades terminated on the South by Foley-bouse and on the North by the fields, but rivalled by Harlcy and Wimpole streets and Devonshire place.

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Quotations
 Chapter 40 
But Mrs. Rushworth’s day of good looks will come; we have cards for her first party on the 28th. Then she will be in beauty, for she will open one of the best houses in Wimpole Street.
 Chapter 44 
I dined twice in Wimpole Street, and might have been there oftener, but it is mortifying to be with Rushworth as a brother. Julia seems to enjoy London exceedingly.
 Chapter 45 
 Chapter 46 
She could only perceive that it must relate to Wimpole Street and Mr. Crawford, and only conjecture that something very imprudent had just occurred in that quarter to draw the notice of the world, and to excite her jealousy, in Miss Crawford’s apprehension, if she heard it.
 Chapter 46 
“Fanny read to herself that “it was with infinite concern the newspaper had to announce to the world a matrimonial fracas in the family of Mr. R. of Wimpole Street;”
 Chapter 47 
for Julia had removed from Wimpole Street two or three weeks before, on a visit to some relations of Sir Thomas; a removal which her father and mother were now disposed to attribute to some view of convenience on Mr. Yates’s account. Very soon after the Rushworths’ return to Wimpole Street, Sir Thomas had received a letter from an old and most particular friend in London, who hearing and witnessing a good deal to alarm him in that quarter, wrote to recommend Sir Thomas’s coming to London himself,
 Chapter 48 
He had suffered, and he had learned to think: two advantages that he had never known before; and the self–reproach arising from the deplorable event in Wimpole Street, to which he felt himself accessory by all the dangerous intimacy of his unjustifiable theatre, made an impression on his mind which, at the age of six–and–twenty, with no want of sense or good companions, was durable in its happy effects.
 
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