The first two storeys were built in the 1890s, while the second two were added in 1949-50, including some garret rooms that do not look out on to balconies.
No measure will deal with the mythical person who is starving in a garret but about to produce the great novel of the century.
I am not one to stand for the old garret system of production.
I know that art and literature are supposed to spring from starving and tuberculous artists and writers working in garrets.
The expense involved in collection seldom leaves anything for the painter—certainly not the painter in the garret.
The origin of some of our greatest factories has been a garret shop.
One child is born in a squalid and miserable garret, and at the same moment another child is born under conditions of affection and luxury.
For example, it is sometimes said that the more of the garret that a writer gets, the better it does him.
