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Mark Twain: Quarry Farm: 1870–1900 Elmira: Twain's family visited his wife's family home every summer for 30 years. Three of his daughters were born here. Today, it is used as a retreat for Mark Twain scholars. [64] Walt Whitman: Walt Whitman Birthplace: 1819–1824 West Hills
The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City. Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club , it has since begun accepting women as members. Mark Twain , an early member, called it the "Ace of Clubs". [ 1 ]
A visitor center and gift shop are also located there. A plaque is located a short distance away from the cottage and memorializes the fact that Grant died there. A New York historic marker is located a few yards from the cottage. [5] Marker. The Victorian hotel and resort that originally surrounded the cottage was lost to fire in 1897.
Mark Twain's 1869 short story "The Legend of the Capitoline Venus" was inspired by the Cardiff Giant, and the ghost of the Giant is a character in Twain's 1870 short story "A Ghost Story." The Cardiff Giant was referenced in the 1935 short story "Out of the Aeons" by H.P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald.
Clara Clemens (1874–1962), concert singer and Mark Twain's only surviving child and widow of Ossip Gabrilowitsch; Jean Clemens (1880–1909), Mark Twain's youngest daughter; Olivia Langdon Clemens (1845–1904), Mark Twain's wife and editor; Susy Clemens (1872–1896), Mark Twain's eldest daughter and a biographer of him
The Clemenses lived in Buffalo, New York, from 1869 to 1871. Twain owned a stake in the Buffalo Express newspaper and worked as an editor and writer. [53] [50] While they were living in Buffalo, their son Langdon died of diphtheria in 1872 at the age of 19 months. They had three daughters: Susy (1872–1896), Clara (1874–1962), [54] and Jean ...
NYU was considering eliminating its $61,000 annual subsidy for the Hall of Fame by 1976. The hall's remote location, far from the New York City Subway, attracted few visitors compared to other tourist attractions in New York City. [138] At the time, it still had 10,000 annual visitors. [147]
Mark Twain: The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: Haliford, Yorkshire: J. B. Priestley: They Walk in the City: A Yorkshire industrial town suffering the economic crisis of the 1930s, similar to real towns well known to writer from his own childhood Harfang: C. S. Lewis: The Silver Chair: Harlow, Maine Stephen King: The Body: Harrison, Ohio Stephen ...