Saffron Park is G. K. Chesterton’s pseudonym for Bedford Park, the popular London artists’ suburb where he once lived (and where he sets the opening and closing scenes of The Man Who Was Thursday).
Saffron Park Quotes in The Man Who Was Thursday
The The Man Who Was Thursday quotes below are all either spoken by Saffron Park or refer to Saffron Park. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its skyline was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. […] It had to be considered not so much as a workshop for artists, but as a frail but finished work of art. A man who stepped into its social atmosphere felt as if he had stepped into a written comedy.
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Saffron Park Term Timeline in The Man Who Was Thursday
The timeline below shows where the term Saffron Park appears in The Man Who Was Thursday. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1: The Two Poets of Saffron Park
The novel begins in Saffron Park , a redbrick suburb west of London, whose charming architecture and quirky residents make it...
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Chapter 2: The Secret of Gabriel Syme
...wrong. Second, Syme asks why Gregory talks so openly about anarchism with his friends in Saffron Park , if his real operations are so top-secret. Gregory smiles and reveals that his friends...
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Chapter 15: The Accuser
...the sky’s colors and the light breeze are impossibly beautiful. Syme notices that he’s in Saffron Park , and he comes to Gregory’s garden, where he sees Rosamond Gregory cutting flowers.
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