Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London
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Famous Houses and Literary Shrines of London is by Arthur St. John Adcock. The title page says the book comes with seventy-four illustrations by Frederick Adcock and 16 portraits. The prefatory note says that nothing could well be deader or emptier than an unoccupied house of whose former inhabitants we have no knowledge. The prefatory note says its writer has attempted to do little more than supply information on what a man thought and did and said whilst he was living in a house, as the complement of his brother's drawings.
The text quotes a man who wrote to Wordsworth that he did not care much if he never saw a mountain, and that he had passed all his days in London. A memorandum quoted in the text records that on Saturday, 18th September 1830, at about half-past four in the afternoon, William Hazlitt died at his lodgings, No. 6 Frith Street, Soho, aged fifty-two years five months and eight days.
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- Arthur St. John Adcock
- Pages
- 247
- Language
- English
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- European History
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