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Lemmons, also known as Gladsmuir and Gladsmuir House, was the home of the English novelists Kingsley Amis and Elizabeth Jane Howard on the south side of Hadley Common, Barnet, on the border of north L
July 2015
Frances Trollope (1779–1863) may have lived in the house from 1836 to 1838.
Martin Amis wrote his first two novels at Lemmons.
Daniel Day-Lewis in 2013
Martin Amis
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Sir Martin Louis Amis was an English novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter and critic. He is best known for his novels Money and London Fields. He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize fo
Lemmons
…to Gladsmuir. Howard and Amis lived at Lemmons with Howard's mother and brother, two artist friends, and Amis's three children, including the novelist Martin Amis. Several of the family's novels were written at Lemmons: Kingsley's The Green Man (1969) and The Alteration (1976); Howard's Odd Girl Out (1972) and…
Amis conversing with Ian Buruma about Monsters at the 2007 New Yorker Festival