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The biography, The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham, by Selena Hastings, nominates 11 Vincent Square, Vauxhall as the first London Home of William Somerset Maugham from 1892-1897. Maugham is best known for his novels Of Human Bondage, The Magician, and, in this period, his first novel Liza of Lambeth, which drew from his experiences as a trainee surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth, set in the squalor of Victorian London's poorest sector.
Maugham became extraordinarily well known and wealthy for his stage plays, prior to true success as a novelist, many of these clever theatre pieces developed while living at Vincent Square.
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