Mark Twain Sold His Connecticut Home Following A Family Death
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The Mark Twain House is located in Hartford, Connecticut. The American author lived there with his family from 1874 until 1891. Twain wrote several books at this Victorian Gothic home, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881), and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884).
Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and his wife and daughter Clara moved to Europe in 1891. His daughters Susy and Jean remained behind, the former of which died at the home in Hartford from spinal meningitis in 1896. This tragedy prevented the Clemens family from moving back into their American home, which they sold in 1903.
