Writer and physician. Born France, between 1483 and 1494, but probably November 1494. Became a monk and studied Latin and Greek, then left to study medicine. Died Paris.
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Francois Rabelais
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Anarchists
This art work is in the style of Donald Rooum. He was the Anarchists' self-ef...
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Frederick Startridge Ellis
Born Richmond, Surrey. Bookseller and author. He published the works of William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who were also close friends. Rossetti wrote a limerick about him: "There’s a pub...
B. Traven
Pen-name of a novelist about whom little is known for certain other than the fact that he spent time in Mexico where he died. Author of 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre', 1927, made into the 1948 ...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Germany, Mexico
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Born in Edinburgh where he trained as a doctor. Extremely successful writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories. A sportsman: a boxer, a cricketer who once dismissed W. G. Grace. The first Englishman to...
Dodie Smith
Author and playwright, Born Lancashire. Wrote 'The Hundred and One Dalmations' and 'I Capture the Castle'. Born Lancashire but in 1910 her mother remarried and they moved to London. Did some acti...
Hayes Literary Society
We can find little about this group but they were very active in 1992 re. Orwell.
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