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Liza of Lambeth
Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while he was a medical student and obstetric clerk at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth, then a working-class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives with her aging mother in the fictional Vere Street off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth. 
Plot summary.
The action covers a period of roughly four months—
Somerset Maugham, completed his training in obstetrics in Lambeth and used that experience as the basis for his novel "Liza of Lambeth"
- Stella McCartney, English fashion designer
- Elliot Rodger, perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings, born in Lambeth in 1991
- Carl McCoy, frontman for gothic rock band Fields of the Nephilim, born there in 1963
- F. B. Meyer, pastored Christ Church in Lambeth
- William Chester Minor, major contributor to the "Oxford English Dictionary"; while living at