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.
There is currently 1 term in this directory beginning with the letter Y.
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Located at 145 Fleet Street (in the City); it’s one of the oldest pubs in London, which Chesterton often frequented to write, have a conversation or discussion, eat and hold parties; other notable clients of the pub were Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, James Boswell, Charles Dickens, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Macaulay, Alfred Tennyson and Mark Twain.