Events in which novelist helped save bard’s birthplace from clutches of US showman PT Barnum will be celebrated in Stratford
The story of how Charles Dickens helped save the house where William Shakespeare was born from the dastardly clutches of PT Barnum, the American showman who modestly billed his circus “the greatest show on earth”, will be celebrated in an exhibition at Stratford-upon-Avon this year.
The auction of the Tudor house was held in London on Thursday 16 September 1847, advertised by a poster announcing the sale of “the truly heart-stirring relic of a most glorious period and of ENGLAND’S IMMORTAL BARD ... the most honoured monument of the greatest genius that ever lived”.
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