George Gissing, the celebrated author of the novel New Grub Street, which satirizes the literary and journalistic world of 1880s London, attended the 20th April 1900 Dinner as a guest of Friar Edward Clodd.
On 16th June 1899, more than twenty-five years from his first visit, the celebrated humorist Mark Twain returned to the Whitefriars Club.
Read more
Mark Twain (1835-1910) was an American humorist, satirist, social critic, lecturer and novelist. He is mostly remembered for his classic novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
He spoke at the Whitefriars Club on 6th September 1872 and 16th June 1899. He also attended and spoke on 5th October 1900, when Winston Churchill was the club’s guest speaker and talked about his career as a war correspondent.
