title: The Street of Wonderful Possibilities: Whistler, Wilde and Sargent in Tite Street
author:  Devon Cox 
description: 'Devon Cox's beautifully written book is not only a scholarly and entertaining description of a vanished world but also a valuable work of reference.'<br><br>'This exceptionally handsome and well-illustrated book - a biography of the street, its residents and their connections - elucidates some of those possibilities. And pretty wonderful they are too.'<br><br>'A well-informed, nicely produced and generously illustrated book about Title Street in merrier, cheaper times, when it could claim to be the epicentre of art in England.'<br><br>'This colourful account reanimates the street and affirms its cultural importance.'<br><br>'This is a well-researched, and eminently readable biography of one street in London, whose occupants make up a <i>dramatis personae</i> of outstanding talent over a period of 120 years... The result, with a red ribbon tastefully tied around it, would make a lovely box of chocolates.'<br><br>'Well-researched and highly readable book.'<br><br>'This book is a fascinating and absorbing record of a time when Chelsea was at the edge of avant-garde.'<br><br>'This is much more than a coffee-table effort. It gives a fascinating, street-level perspective on a period when art mattered to high society, when jobbing architects could marry royal mistresses and when a penniless Italian caricaturist could find himself dining at Buckingham Palace.'<br><br>'This beautifully illustrated history of London's answer to the Left Bank would make a wonderful present for art lovers.'<br><br>'Cox has done an admirable job of marshalling his material...The books is well populated with the voices of its protagonists and their critics, lending it a rich anecdotal texture and allowing the great egos of Tite Street to speak for themselves. "Mighty swells dwell here," wrote the American author Benjamin Ellis Martin in 1889, "and here pose some famous farceurs in art and literature."'<br><br>'Richly anecdotal.'<br><br>`a fascinating, entertaining, well researched book. highly recommended.'<br><br>'This street became centre of London's fin-de-siecle art scene, which the historian Devon Cox has made the basis of an engrossing, detailed and somewhat melancholy group biography. Three titans of the era naturally dominate its pages, though in the background swells a lively and ever-changing cast of artists major and minor, muses, models, critics, princes and paupers, actors, rent boys, property speculators and assorted other villains.'<br><br>'A beautifully illustrated cultural biography.'<br><br>'This is an extraordinarily well-conceived, structured and produced book with all the pictures you could want, where you want them. An important book.'<br><br>'Cox bounces back and forth across Tite Street, rallying his subjects like characters in a high-class soap opera... an assured and dazzling debut.'<br><br>'Devon Cox's beautifully written book is not only a scholarly and entertaining description of a vanished world but also a valuable work of reference.'<br><br>'Cox bounces back and forth across Tite Street, rallying his subjects like characters in a high-class soap opera... an assured and dazzling debut.'<br><br>'This is a well-researched, and eminently readable biography of one street in London, whose occupants make up a <i>dramatis personae</i> of outstanding talent over a period of 120 years... The result, with a red ribbon tastefully tied around it, would make a lovely box of chocolates.'
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  # OUR STREET
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### William Makepeace Thackeray
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  OUR STREET
  
  
    
  OUR HOUSE IN OUR STREET
  
  
    
  THE BUNGALOW—CAPTAIN AND MRS. BRAGG.
  
  
    
  LEVANT HOUSE CHAMBERS.
  
  
    
  SOME OF THE SERVANTS IN OUR STREET.
  
  
    
  WHAT SOMETIMES HAPPENS IN OUR STREET.
  
  
    
  SOMEBODY WHOM NOBODY KNOWS.
  
  
    
  THE MAN IN POSSESSION.
  
  
    
  THE LION OF THE STREET.
  
  
    
  THE DOVE OF OUR STREET.
  
  
    
  THE ORATORY.
  
  
    
  THE BUMPSHERS.
  
  
    
  JOLLY NEWBOY, ESQ., M.P.
  
  
  
      
  
  
  This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com.
  
  
  
  
  
  ## OUR STREET
  
  
  BY MR. M. A TITMARSH.
  
  
  Our street, from the little nook which I occupy in it, and whence
  
  
  I and a fellow-lodger and friend of mine cynically observe it,
  
  
  presents a strange motley scene. We are in a state of transition. We
  
  
  are not as yet in the town, and we have left the country, where we
  
  
  were when I came to lodge with Mrs. Cammysole, my ex