The Lady in the Van
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The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British comedy-drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner, and starring Maggie Smith and Alex Jennings, based on his earlier memoir and stage play of the same name, created b
Theatrical release poster
23 Gloucester Crescent in 2019
Margaret Fairchild
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Margaret Mary Fairchild, also known as Mary Teresa Sheppard, Miss Shepherd and M T Sheppard, was a British homeless woman. Earlier in life, she had been a concert pianist and nun.
The Lady in the Van
…and stage play of the same name, created by Alan Bennett. It was written by Bennett, and it tells the (mostly) true story of his interactions with Mary Shepherd, an elderly woman who lived in a dilapidated van on his driveway in north London for 15 years. He had previously published the story as a 1989 essay…
Fairchild in 1989
The former Convent of the Society of the Helpers of the Holy Souls on Gloucester Avenue where Fairchild was a novice in 1936, now the North Bridge House School
For 15 years Fairchild lived in her van where the car is in this image