Mulligan, the directionally challenged artillery man is up to his old tricks again but near as I can figure it, the answers this week are:
1. Manchester
2. Harold Brighouse
The first novelist is Frances Hodgson Burnett (b1849), who published 'The Secret Garden' in 1911 and lived on the Cheetham hill road (among other places) and the second novelist is William Harrison Ainsworth, who published some of his works under the name Thomas Hall, he lived in Smedley lane in the Cheetham hill district but was born in King Street in 1805. The longest railway platform was the one between Manchester's Victoria and Exchange stations (until exchange station closed in 1969). I'm not totally sure but I think the 1838 novel he is referring to is 'Nicholas Nickelby' by Charles Dickens, who visited Manchester several times and allegedly based his 'Cheerbyle brothers' in that work, on the Ramsbottom industrialists 'The Grant Brothers'.
The first playwright is William Shakespeare and the Shakespearian Gardens are in the Platt Fields Park which is west of Manchester Grammer school (motto "Dare to be Wise"). The second playwright alumnus was Harold Brighouse (b1882) works included 'Hobson's Choice' (the Will and Maggie reference).
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