Machen
Proper noun
Meaning
Machen (plural Machens)
An English surname from Anglo-Norman [in turn originating as an occupation].
Machen
A village in Caerphilly county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST2189).
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Examples
Also waiting in line was Adam Machen of Crosby.
His article 'Arthur Machen and The Hill of Dreams' appeared in the Minnesota Quarterly in spring 1926, and led to an exchange of letters with the Welsh mystic."
It fosters interest not only in Machen but in events in which he played a key part, such as the Angels of Mons affair, and organises psychogeographic excursions.
In 1929, Machen and his family moved away from London to Amersham in Buckinghamshire, but they still faced financial hardship.
In general, though, Machen thoroughly disliked work at the newspaper, and it was only the need to earn money for his family which kept him at it.
Journalism and the Great War: 1910–1921 Finally Machen accepted a full-time journalist's job at Alfred Harmsworth 's Evening News in 1910.