Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literature, 1932. The Forsyte Saga is his best known work. Died Grove Lodge, Hampstead.
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John Galsworthy
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Adam, Hood, Galsworthy, Barrie, etc.
We understand the "here" on the plaque to refer to the whole of Adelphi Terra...
John Galsworthy
Galsworthy was not well enough to go to the ceremony to receive his Nobel Pri...
Mont Blanc restaurant
City of Westminster Site of the Mont Blanc Restaurant where leading writers,...
Rules Restaurant 2
Rules®. London's oldest restaurant. In the year Napoleon opened his campaign ...
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Tabard Inn
Set up by an abbot from Winchester to give his brethren somewhere to stay in London and to provide accomodation to pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, in particular Chaucer's pilgrims, who set off...
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Sylvia Plath
Poet, novelist and short story writer. Born Massachusetts. Came to England and met Ted Hughes at a celebration for a poetry magazine in Cambridge. Married him on 16 June 1956 at St George the Marty...
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Hayes Literary Society
We can find little about this group but they were very active in 1992 re. Orwell.
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P. L. Travers
Author. Born Helen Lyndon Goff in Maryborough, Queensland. She emigrated to England at the age of 25 and adopted the name Pamela Lyndon Travers whilst writing the Mary Poppins novels for which she ...
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Francis Bret Harte
American writer, best know for his accounts of pioneering life in California. Born New York. Came to London in 1885 via Germany and Glasgow. Buried at Frimley, Surrey. Some sources, contradicti...
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