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PAST TIMES; Pinckney Street's Literary Past

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From: The Beacon Hill Times
Date: 20031118
Author:Anonymous

During the 19th and early 20th century, Beacon Hill was a meeting place of musical and literary excellence, and Pinckney Street attracted prominent authors, poets, essayists, publishers and composers. Salons were held in various homes that provided a gathering place for notables of the day such as Emerson, Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

At the top of Pinckney Street, number 4 formerly housed two of the 19th century's most distinguished writers, Jacob Abbott and Henry David Thoreau. Abbott authored the successful "Rollo" books, which were the first fictional series of books written for ...

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