Disraeli

BENJAMIN DISRAELI (1804 - 1881)

The great prime minister was also a novelist of some distinction and in Tancred (1847) he calls Alnwick 'Montacute' and describes the town and castle:

'It is the prettiest town in the world, built entirely of hewn stone, the well-paved and well-lighted streets as neat as a Dutch village... The principal building, which is vast and of various ages, from the Plantagenets to the Guelphs, rises on a terrace, from which, on the side opposite to the town, you descend into a well-timbered inclosure... Further on, the forest again appears - the deer crouch in their fern, or glance along the vistas; nor does the green domain terminate till it touches the vast and purple moors that divide the kingdoms of Great Britain.'

Myers Literary Guide:	The North-East
BENJAMIN DISRAELI (1804 - 1881) The great prime minister was also a novelist of some distinction and in Tancred (1847) he calls Alnwick 'Montacute' and describes the town and castle: 'It is the prettiest town in the world, built entirely of hewn stone, the well-paved and well-lighted streets as neat as a Dutch village... The principal building, which is vast and of various ages, from the Plantagenets to the Guelphs, rises on a terrace, from which, on the side opposite to the town, you descend into a well-timbered inclosure... Further on, the forest again appears - the deer crouch in their fern, or glance along the vistas; nor does the green domain terminate till it touches the vast and purple moors that divide the kingdoms of Great Britain.'
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