The Pines, Putney Explained

The Pines is a Grade II listed house in Putney in the London Borough of Wandsworth, it was home to the poets Algernon Charles Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton.[1]

Location

The building is at 9 - 11 Putney Hill, south of the Upper Richmond Road, Transport for London bus stop Putney Station (Stop H) is outside.[2]

History and residents

The building was built circa 1870 as a pair of four-storey townhouses.[1] Theodore Watts-Dunton moved in during 1879 with his two sisters, brother in-law, and nephew.[3] [4] Watts-Dunton took in Algernon Charles Swinburne[5] until Swinburne's death in 1909.[6] Watts-Dunton and Swinburne are seen in an image at the property in 1909[7] and a blue plaque erected by the London County Council on the house in 1926 reads "Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) poet, and his friend Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832–1914) poet, novelist, critic, lived and died here".[8] Watts-Dunton lived on at The Pines for five years after his more famous companion's death in 1909[9] and then died there in 1914.[10]

Visitors

Essayist and cartoonist Max Beerbohm frequently visited.[11] He described the house as being "but a few steps from the railway-station in Putney High Street" in his 1914 essay No. 2, The Pines.,[12] and illustrated a visit in a piece in 1926.[13] Mollie Panter-Downes researched Beerbohm's visits in the book 'At the Pines' in 1971.[14]

Watts-Dunton also took in artist Henry Treffry Dunn and provided a studio for him at The Pines until his death in 1899.[15]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 9, Putney Hill and The Pines, 11, Putney Hill, Wandsworth, London . BritishListedBuildings.co.uk . British Listed Buildings, a Good Stuff website, is an independent online resource and is not associated with any government department. . 28 March 2022.
  2. Web site: Putney Station (Stop H) Stop ID: 58162 . . 28 March 2022 . en.
  3. Book: Bristow . Joseph . Mitchell . Rebecca Nicole . Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery . 1 January 2015 . Yale University Press . 978-0-300-20830-6 . en.
  4. Web site: Oscar Wilde's Chatterton: Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery. Edited by Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell . vdoc.pub . 28 March 2022 . en.
  5. News: Greer . Robert . Coming to London II by Leonard Woolf . 28 March 2022 . . 19 June 2019.
  6. Web site: SW15: Decline and fall – Stop 2: The Pines, 11 Putney Hill . londonpostcodewalks.wordpress.com . 28 March 2022.
  7. Web site: Summer at The Pines', c1909, . The Pines, 11 Putney Hill, Putney, the... . . 28 March 2022 . en-gb.
  8. Web site: Theodore Watts-Dunton . English Heritage . 28 March 2022.
  9. Marchand . Leslie A. . The Watts-Dunton Letter Books . The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries . 26 April 2012 . 17 . 1 . 10.14713/jrul.v17i1.1318 . 3 April 2022 . Leslie A. Marchand, Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences of Rutgers and editor of the Journal, discovered in 1947 in England the Symington Collection which was acquired by the Library. Among the manuscripts in that Collection were the Watts-Dunton letter books here described....During the late nineteenth century Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton was held in an amazing esteem as critic, poet, romance writer, and friend of writers.... free .
  10. Web site: Theodore Watts-Dunton . London Remembers . 28 March 2022 . en.
  11. Web site: Wuthering Expectations: Swinburne via Beerbohm and Sebald - he cooingly and flutingly sang . Wuthering Expectations . 28 March 2022 . 31 January 2016.
  12. Book: Beerbohm . Max . Max Beerbohm . And Even Now . No. 2. The Pines (1914) . . 28 March 2022.
  13. Web site: Beerbohm . Max . Max Beerbohm . No. 2, The Pines, Max Beerbohm lunching with Algernon Charles Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton . . 28 March 2022.
  14. Book: Panter-Downes . Mollie . Mollie Panter-Downes . At The Pines: Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney . 1971 . Hamilton . . 978-0-241-01943-6 . en . 162391.
  15. Web site: Dunn . Henry Treffry . Henry Treffry Dunn . The Theodore Watts-Dunton Cabinet . . 3 April 2022 . Wightwick Manor, Wightwick Bank, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England . circa 1896-1898.

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