Poet and playwright. Born Leytonstone.
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Francis Turner Palgrave
Poet & critic. Born Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. Wrote hymns and compiled the "Golden Treasury of English Lyrics (1861)".Lived in Hampstead at one time (see our Samuel Sanders Teulon page). Died K...
Earl of Ellesmere, Francis Egerton
Politician, poet, founding trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1951. Born 21 Arlington Street, Piccadilly. Died Bridgewater House, London. ...
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Christina Rossetti
Poet in the Pre-Raphaelite style. Sister to Dante; family details are given there. Born at 38 Charlotte Street. Engaged three times but never married; at least two of them were rejected due to 'r...
Eva Gore-Booth
Poet and dramatist, and a committed suffragist, social worker and labour activist. Born as Eva Selina Laura Gore-Booth in County Sligo, the younger sister of Constance Gore-Booth, who was later kn...