Novelist. Born in the parish of Cripplegate, as Daniel Foe, adding the "de" latter, for effect. Published "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719, considered by some to be the first novel in English. His grave with monument is in Bunhill Fields.
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Daniel Defoe
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Bunhill burial ground - 5
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The Village in the Jungle
Novel written by Leonard Woolf, published 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon, but unusually written from the native point of view.
1 memorial
Elizabeth Bowen
Writer. Born Elizabeth Dorothea Cole at 15 Herbert Place, Dublin. Educated in England, she published her first collection of stories, 'Encounters' in 1923. Her best known novels include 'The Death ...
1 memorial
Walter Scott
Writer. Born Edinburgh. Extremely popular in his lifetime, worldwide. Novels include: Waverley and Ivanhoe. Poems: Lady of the Lake. Died Abbotsford, south of Edinburgh, his home since 1812. ...
2 memorials
Samuel Augustine Courtauld
Philanthropist and editor. Associated with Halstead, Braintree. Almost certainly related to Samuel Courtauld of Institute fame but we cannot discover how.
1 memorial
Joseph Smith
Translated Pepys's diary (written in one of the versions of shorthand used at the time) in 1819 - 22.
1 memorial