Founded to promote the study and appreciation of the life and works of the author.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
Founded to promote the study and appreciation of the life and works of the author.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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The Beatrix Potter Society
Beatrix Potter, writer and artist, 1866 to 1943, lived in a house on this sit...
Born in Pairs as Francois Marie Arouet. Adopted the name Voltaire aged 24. The traditional story is that the intolerance of Catholic France forced this free-thinker to escape to the land of liberty...
Biographer, editor and critic. Wife of the painter Michael Noakes. She wrote a notable biography of Edward Lear and was a leading scholar of the war poet Isaac Rosenberg.
Vera Mary Brittain was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire the daughter of Thomas Arthur Brittain (1864-1935) and Edith Mary Brittain (1868-1948). Her father was a paper manufacturer. The 1...
Poet and novelist. Born Ireland but brought up in London. His mystery novels were written under his pseudonym, Nicholas Blake. 1951 married the actor Jill Balcon (daughter of Michael Balcon.) Fathe...
Writer. Born Richmal Crompton Lamburn in Manchester Road, Bury. She became a teacher, but had to give up when she contracted poliomyelitis, and was left without the use of her right leg. She was th...