How Long to Read Old Chelsea

How Long Does it Take to Read Old Chelsea?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 2 minutes to read Old Chelsea by Benjamin Ellis Martin

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The embankment mansions from Battersea I HAD strolled, on a summer day, from Apsley House towards the then residence of Charles Reade at Knightsbridge, when I came upon one of those surprises of which London is still so full to me, even after more than a dozen years of fond familiarity with its streets and with all that they mean to the true lover of the Town. For, as I watched the ceaseless traffic of the turbulent turnings from the great thoroughfare down towards Chelsea, there came to my mind a phrase in the pages of its local historian: who, writing but a little earlier than the year 1830, points with pride to a project just then formed for the laying out of the latest of these very streets--at that day it was a new rural road cut through fields and swamps--and by it, he says, "Chelsea will obtain direct connection with London; and henceforth must be considered an integral part of the Great Metropolis of the British Empire"! It is hard to realise that only fifty years ago Chelsea was a rustic and retired village, far from London: even as was Islington, fifty years ago, when Charles Lamb, pensioned and set free from his desk in the India House, retired to that secluded spot with his sister to live "in a cottage, with a spacious garden," as he wrote; with "the New River, rather elderly by this time, running in front (if a moderate walking pace can be so termed)": even as was Kensington--"the old court suburb pleasantly situated on the great Western road"--just fifty years ago, when wits and statesmen drove between fields and market gardens to the rival courts of Gore House and of Holland House; and N. P. Willis delighted the feminine readers of the New York Mirror with his gossip about his visits to Lady Blessington and about the celebrities who bowed before her. To-day all these villages, along with many even more remote, are one with London. Yet, more than any of them, has Chelsea kept its old village character--albeit preserving but few of its old village features.

How long is Old Chelsea?

Old Chelsea by Benjamin Ellis Martin is 62 pages long, and a total of 15,624 words.

This makes it 21% the length of the average book. It also has 19% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Old Chelsea Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 25 minutes to read Old Chelsea aloud.

What Reading Level is Old Chelsea?

Old Chelsea is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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