Person    | Male  Born 29/4/1810  Died 11/11/1892

Voltaire Foundation

The Voltaire Foundation is a research department in the University of Oxford, publishing in the area of the Eighteenth century, especially the French Enlightenment.

Group, History, Literature, France

Evelyn Waugh

Writer. Born 11 Hillfield Road, West Hampstead.  Wrote "Decline and Fall", "Brideshead Revisited".  And we have to tell you the strange but true fact that Waugh's first wife's name was also Evelyn....

Person, Literature, Seriously Famous

Jane Austen Society

Formed initially to preserve Jane's cottage in the village of Chawton, Hampshire. This was purchased in 1947 and is now open to the public.

Group, Literature

H.G. Wells Society

Group, Literature

Siegfried Sassoon

Poet and writer. Born Siegfried Loraine (also spelt Lorraine or Louvain depending on source) Sassoon at Weirleigh, Brenchley, near Paddock Wood, Kent. Grandson of Thomas Thornycroft and cousin of S...

Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Poetry, Seriously Famous, France