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The Wheatsheaf is a pub inRathbone Place,Fitzrovia, London, that was popular with London'sbohemian set in the 1930s. Its customers includedGeorge Orwell,Dylan Thomas,Edwin Muir andHumphrey Jennings, who were known for a while as theWheatsheaf writers[1] Other habitués included the singer and dancerBetty May, and the writer andsurrealist poetPhilip O'Connor,Nina Hamnett,Julian Maclaren-Ross,Anthony Carson andQuentin Crisp.[2]
In spring 1936, the poetDylan Thomas metCaitlin Macnamara (1913–1994), a 22-year-old blonde-haired, blue-eyed dancer of Irish descent. She had run away from home, intent on making a career in dance, and aged 18 joined the chorus line at theLondon Palladium.[3][4] Introduced by the artistAugustus John, Caitlin's lover, they met in The Wheatsheaf.[4][5][6] Laying his head in her lap, a drunken Thomas proposed.[3][7] Thomas liked to comment that he and Caitlin were in bed together ten minutes after they first met.[8] Although Caitlin initially continued her relationship with John, she and Thomas began a correspondence, and in the second half of 1936 were courting. They married at the register office inPenzance, Cornwall, on 11 July 1937.
Social off shoot of the Chap magazine, met there every first Wednesday of the month from 2005 to 2025.https://www.newsheridanclub.co.uk
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