![]() ![]() Hando recounts Machen's other early reading: Local historian and folklorist Fred Hando traces Machen's interest in the occult to a volume of Household Words in his father's rectory library, in which he read, at the age of eight, an entrancing article on alchemy. Jones had adopted his wife's maiden name, Machen, to inherit a legacy, legally becoming "Jones-Machen" his son was baptised under that name and later used a shortened version of his full name, Arthur Machen, as a pen name. In 1864, when Machen was two, his father John Edward Jones, became vicar of the parish of Llanddewi Fach with Llandegveth, about five miles north of Caerleon, and Machen was brought up at the rectory there. ![]() Machen was descended from a long line of clergymen, the family having originated in Carmarthenshire. The Rectory, Llanddewi Fach-Machen's childhood home ![]()
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