PAP 097

The Poet and The Paupers

Appendix A.097


In 1870 he remarried, to a friend of long standing named Sarah Scrase, a member of an old Sussex family, and in the following year they moved to Peckham, then a fashionable suburb on the south-eastern edge of London. In 1873 he and Sarah set out to tour Sweden and Denmark in an attempt to improve their health, but although the visit provided enough material for Mark Antony to write his last book, Wayside Notes In Scandinavia, illness cut it short and two years later Sarah died.Mark Antony went then to live with his youngest daughter, Fanny, in Enfield, Middlesex, but he survived his wife by less than a year. His body was brought back to Lewes and buried in St. Anne’s Churchyard, at the top of the hill looking down the ancient High Street to the Castle whose present state of preservation is, in part, one monument to his memory. Another is the stained glass window that bears his name in St. Anne’s Church. That name will be found too in the bibliography or the index of almost any book written about or touching upon the history of Sussex. One of the most entertaining of his own was Worthies of Sussex. If ever that should be re-issued, it would certainly need an additional chapter to provide a portrait of its own author.

In 1870 he remarried, to a friend of long standing named Sarah Scrase, a member of an old Sussex family, and in the following year they moved to Peckham, then a fashionable suburb on the south-eastern edge of London. In 1873 he and Sarah set out to tour Sweden and Denmark in an attempt to improve their health, but although the visit provided enough material for Mark Antony to write his last book, Wayside Notes In Scandinavia, illness cut it short and two years later Sarah died.Mark Antony went then to live with his youngest daughter, Fanny, in Enfield, Middlesex, but he survived his wife by less than a year. His body was brought back to Lewes and buried in St. Anne’s Churchyard, at the top of the hill looking down the ancient High Street to the Castle whose present state of preservation is, in part, one monument to his memory. Another is the stained glass window that bears his name in St. Anne’s Church.

That name will be found too in the bibliography or the index of almost any book written about or touching upon the history of Sussex. One of the most entertaining of his own was Worthies of Sussex. If ever that should be re-issued, it would certainly need an additional chapter to provide a portrait of its own author.

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