The print seller Rudolph Ackermann lived and worked at No. 101 The Strand between 1797 and 1827.
In the 19th century, The Strand became a newly fashionable address and many avant-garde writers and thinkers gathered here, among them Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill, Ralph Waldo Emerson and the scientist Thomas Henry Huxley [REF].