Famous houses and literary shrines of London (1912)
Adcock, Arthur St. John, 1864-1930, Adcock, Frederick · London, J.M. Dent & sons, ltd.; New York, E.P. Dutton & co. · leaf 342
aturally courteous manner.At Rowan Road he wrote most of his Old CourtSuburb, in the preface to a recent edition of which Mr.Austin Dobson says of the Leigh Hunt of those closingdays, He was still the old sensitive, luminous-eyedLeigh Hunt of the wide coUar and floating printednightgown, delighted… … LciqH Hunt li HowanRoad ^/HIMSHSMITH ample, of faded black silk, which gave him the air(says John Forster) of an old French Abb6. He diedaway from home in 1859, whilst he was on a shortvisit to a relative at Putney. CHAPTER XIV THACKERAY No Other literary Londoner has taken root as Carlyledid in…
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