Islington was also the place in which Arthur Dent ( Hitchhickers Guide to the Galaxy.) meets Trillian during a party in a flat. The Wilfers of Holloway feature in Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend (1864--65). Emma Evans, protagonist of Margaret Drabble's novel The Garrick Year (1964), lives, after she has married her husband David, in ``an ordinary nineteenth-century terrace house in Islington, and on either side of the front door stood a small stone lion ... the back garden was up to the standard of the lions''.
Emma Evans
Margaret Drabble