82 Curzon Mill Rd – John P. Marquand (1893-1960)
Marquand-Hale House near Curzon Mill
Courtesy of The Historical Society of Old Newbury, The Snow Collection
“When financial reverses broke up the family’s comfortable household, John P. Marquand was sent to Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he was raised by his eccentric aunts, who lived in a crumbling Federal Period mansion surrounded by remnants of the family’s vanished glory. Marquand’s ancestors had been successful merchants in the Revolutionary period; Margaret Fuller and other aunts had been actively involved with the Transcendentalist and abolitionist movements.
Curzon Mill, Marquand house in the background
Courtesy of The Historical Society of Old Newbury, The Snow Collection
Marquand attended Newburyport High School, where he won a scholarship that enabled him to attend Harvard College.
82 Curzon Mill Road today
In the late 1930s, Marquand began producing a series of novels on the dilemmas of class, most centered on New England. The first of these, The Late George Apley (1937), a satire of Boston’s upper class, won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1938. Other Marquand novels exploring New England and class themes include Wickford Point (1939), H.M. Pulham, Esquire (1941), and Point of No Return (1949).” ~ Wikipedia
John P. Marquand
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Curzon Mill, Courtesy of the Newburyport Archival Center