The Hilltop Writers: A Victorian Colony Among the Surrey Hills (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781873855317)

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.

Author: W. R. Trotter
ISBN-10: 1873855311
ISBN-13: 9781873855317
Publisher: John Owen Smith
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2003
Pages: 262
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.55d