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The Hilltop Writers: A Victorian Colony Among the Surrey Hills

The Hilltop Writers: A Victorian Colony Among the Surrey Hills

Trotter, W. R.

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ISBN10: 1873855311
ISBN13: 9781873855317
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 31 2003
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
When a railway line opened in 1859, cutting through the hills of south-west Surrey on its way from London to Portsmouth, it presented an enticing new possibility. Now professional people could choose to live among heather-covered hilltops, with their wide views and wholesome air, while still having access to the facilities of the capital, only an hour and a half away by train from Haslemere. Many did so, following the example of the poet laureate himself, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. In this book, rich in detail and yet thoroughly readable, Bob Trotter tells of sixty-five other writers who chose to populate the hilltops around Haslemere and Hindhead in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

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