Cultural References
In The Hundred and One Dalmatians, a popular children's novel by Dodie Smith, the protagonist dalmatian dogs live near Regent's Park (and are taken there for walks by their human family, the Dearlys). Regent's Park is also featured in the movies One Hundred and One Dalmatians based off Dodie Smith's book. Regent's Park is also the setting scene for the film Withnail and I. Ian Fleming's James Bond novels frequently mention the headquarters of MI6 as a "tall, grey building near Regent's Park."
Rosamund Stacey, protagonist of Margaret Drabble's novel The Millstone (1965), lives in "a nice flat, on the fourth floor of a large block of an early twentieth-century building, and in very easy reach of Regent's Park".
In the novel and film of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry goes to the London Zoo for his cousin's birthday.
In the short story "The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman" by Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings travel in a taxicab to Regent's Park to investigate a murder that has taken place in "Regent's Court," a fictional block of modern flats nearby.
In Ruth Rendell's novel The Keys to the Street much of the action (and murders) take place in and around Regent's Park.
The Regent's Park is the setting for several scenes in Virginia Woolf's novel, Mrs. Dalloway (1925).
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