Mark Twain blue plaque

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# 23 Tedworth Square Standing before the elegant Victorian townhouse in Chelsea's quiet Tedworth Square, you're looking at the London refuge where Samuel Clemens—better known as Mark Twain—retreated during one of his life's darkest periods. In 1896-97, as financial ruin from his failed publishing c...

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23 Tedworth Square

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Samuel L. Clemens, 'Mark Twain' 1835-1910 American writer lived here in 1896-7