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 eventually became the bane of Napoleon's rule." She escaped Napoleon by temporary exile to Russia and England. She believed that "a society's treatment of its female citizens was the measure of its civilisation". Died at home in Paris.
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Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein
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Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein
1813 - 1814, Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein, lived in a house on t...
Spirit of Soho Mural
Interesting that Coca Cola are specifically mentioned on the panel but not as...
Other Subjects
1 memorial
Walter Pater
Academic, aesthete, art critic, writer. Born at 1 Honduras Terrace, Commercial Road (this terrace still exists, as 368 - 376 Commercial Road, immediately to the west of Steel's Lane). Brought up in...
1 memorial
Wyndham Lewis
Artist and writer. Born Percy Wyndham Lewis but he didn't like the Percy and dropped it. He was born in his wealthy American father's yacht off Amherst, Nova Scotia, to a British mother who left he...
Person, Art, Literature, USA
1 memorial
J.B. Priestley
Novelist, playwright and essayist. Wrote "When we are married" and "An Inspector Calls".
1 memorial
Herman Melville
Novelist. Born New York City as Herman Melvill. After 7 years as a seaman on whaling ships 1837 - 44 he began writing about his experiences and in 1851 published Moby Call-me-Ishmael Dick. In that...
1 memorial
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London Bridge
Four stone bridges have spanned the Thames at this point. The first was built in about 1210 and lasted right through the medieval period. This was the one that had the spikes and is shown in some d...
25 memorials
John Keats
Born 24 Moorfields Pavement Row, Finsbury. This was the Swan and Hoop pub, where his father worked as a stableman and later managed the inn. Baptised at St Botolphs. 1815-16 trained at Guy’s Hospit...
8 memorials
Blackfriars Station
The station was opened by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway company with the name St. Paul's, and renamed in 1937. It underwent a major redevelopment between 2009 and 2012, with the platforms n...
1 memorial
Esther Roper
Esther Roper was an English suffragist and social justice campaigner who fought for equal employment and voting rights for working-class women. Lifelong partner of Eva Gore-Booth. The photo shows ...
1 memorial
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