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John Newbery
The John Newbery Memorial Plaque John Newbery, 1713 - 1767, benevolent bookse...
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Anne Brontë
Novelist and poet. Born Yorkshire. Youngest member of the Bonte literary family. Novels: 'Agnes Grey', 'Tenant of Wildfell Hall'. See Charlotte Brontë for more.
Charles Hamilton (Frank Richards)
Author for children. Born Oak Street, Ealing, where the plaque now is. Specialised in writing long series of stories generally using a different pen-name for each. Most famously, as Charles Hamil...
Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein
Born in Paris. Adam Thorpe has written "Conscious of her physical plainness but 'irresistibly seductive' in conversation, her salons were the focal point for pre-revolutionary reform, and eventual...
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Poet and writer. Born Anna Letitia Aikin at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. She had a successful career at a time when women rarely were professional writers. Her writing includes essays, poems ...
Ewan MacColl
Folk singer, songwriter, dramatist, Marxist. Born James Miller in Salford, Lancashire. Three wives: theatre director Joan Littlewood, movement teacher Jean Newlove (with whom he had Kirsty MacColl)...
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