Possible Clues:

• Spartan gold found at top of street here in the East End of London
• American sitting in a tree, unusually ascetic
• Stern, self-denying
• Harsh about replacing author's final piece
• Morally strict
• Puritanical tea-user drunk
• Severe, twisted features ignored by female
• Far from fancy
• Uncompromising
• Simple Australian tree chopped up