Download or read book The Literary Lights Were Always Bright at written by Barbara Rotundo and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone wanted to be invited to 148 Charles Street, where Charles Dickens mixed the punch. Where Harriet Beecher Stowe and John Greenleaf Whittier vied in telling ghost stories and Nathaniel Hawthorne paced the bedroom floor one unhappy night in the final miserable year of his life. The address was once nearly as well known as 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is today and for much the same reason - it represented a center of power.