Glossary

The glossary includes essential terms related to the person, life, and work of Chesterton. For reasons of space it must inevitably be incomplete. It includes the most important people – family, friends, contemporaries and adversaries -, the most significant places – streets, neighborhoods, buildings, literary, cultural and religious associations – and the most important public activities – conferences, debates, meetings, congresses , election campaigns and travel.

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There are currently 5 terms in this directory beginning with the letter T.

T. Fisher Unwin

Publishers in which Chesterton worked for the period 1895-1901.

Terlincthun British Cemetery

British cemetery in Terlincthun, located in the suburbs north of Boulogne-sur-Mer, a coastal town in the northern French department of Pas-de-Calais; it’s a cemetery for British soldiers fallen in the First World War, among them Cecil Chesterton.

Top Meadow

Second residence of Gilbert and Frances in Beaconsfield (Buckinghamshire); located at 1 Grove Road; they lived there since 1922; Gilbert died there on 14 June 1936.

Toy theatre

Toy belonging to his father Edward, who greatly influenced him during his childhood and beyond; Gilbert showed interest in it all his life.

Trial of John Jasper

On 7 January 1914 the Trial of John Jasper for the murder of Edwin Drood was held at King’s Hall (King Street, Covent Garden, London); mock trial of the literary character created by Charles Dickens, with Chesterton as the judge; it was one of many mock trials held at the time.