Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.
Chesterton Short(s)
Regarding a minor coincidence, consider that the mystery-novelist Agatha Christie once lived at No. 58 Sheffield Terrace in the Campden Hill area in Kensington. Chesterton admirers will recall that his parents lived very near that address at No. 32–the house no longer stands–when Gilbert was born in 1874. In 1880, the family moved to No. 11 Warwick Gardens. The first home for Gilbert and Frances, following their marriage on June 28, 1901, was the house at No. 1 Edwardes Square in Kensington, located on the north side of the square. [George Wil1liams, Guide to Literary London, Batsford, 1973, p. 201 and 328; The London Encyclopedia, Bethesda: Adler, 1986, p. 926]
