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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Charlotte Brontë
Novelist and poet. Born Yorkshire, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters. Novels include: Jane Eyre, Shirley. To avoid gender prejudice she and her sisters, Emily and Anne published first under...
1 memorial
T. E. Lawrence
Intelligence officer and author. Born at Woodlands, Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire. He joined the archaeological team of Sir Flinders Petrie at Carchemish on the Euphrates, where he first met the Bedoui...
Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Seriously Famous, Middle East, Wales
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Joseph Ritson, FSA
Literary antiquarian. Born Co. Durham. Trained as a lawyer and from 1780 had chambers in Gray's Inn where he specialised in conveyancing. Odd in a number of ways: aged 20 converted to vegetarian...
1 memorial
Jane Loudon
Author and pioneer of science fiction. Born near Birmingham as Jane Webb. Wrote "The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century" and published it in 1827, anonymously. This was reviewed favour...
1 memorial
Martin Chuzzlewit
Novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published in serial form 1843–4. The picture is an ilustration by Fred Barnard from the 1870s.
1 memorial