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Show LITERARY MECCA OF ENGLAND. Famous Writers Who Lived In Twickenham Twick-enham Tennyson's House. Tho place to which the lover of English literature will sooner or later turn his steps Is Twickenham. No other small town can boast of hnv-dig hnv-dig been tho rcsldcnco and beloved abode of go many famous literary lights. With It are associated the immortal names of Pope, Horaco Wnlpole, Swift, Gny, Lady Wortley Montagu, Gibbon, Hoswcll, Johnson, Tennyson nnd Dickens. Surely this Is enough to make any place doubly Immortal! Twickenham was well nicknamed by Horaco Wnlpole the Ualac, or Tlvoll, of England; for It linn truly been to London what Unlae was to ancient Home Indeed, In n far higher degree. The big red brick house In Mont-poller Mont-poller road where Alfred Tennyson lived for bo many years of his earlier married life was tho one in which many of his earlier poems were written. writ-ten. Here his son Lionel, the second Lord Tennyson, was born, and there tho author of the "Idyls" entertained many of his literary friends and acquaintances. ac-quaintances. That house should surely be sacred to all lovers of English literature which saw the dawn of "In Memo-riam;" Memo-riam;" which witnessed thobe delightful delight-ful gatherings graced by Tennyson, llallam and kindred spirits within Its walls. |
