Born Philadelphia. Wrote 84 Charing Cross Road in 1970. Later made into a play and film.
Died New York City. The apartment building where she lived at 305 E. 72nd Street has been named "Charing Cross House" and a plaque erected.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Helene Hanff
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Booksellers - Marks & Co.
84 Charing Cross Road. The booksellers Marks & Co. were on this site whi...
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Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Poet and writer. Born Anna Letitia Aikin at Kibworth Harcourt, Leicestershire. She had a successful career at a time when women rarely were professional writers. Her writing includes essays, poems ...
1 memorial
Brendan Behan
Poet, writer, playwright. Born Dublin. Irish republican and, aged 16 - 23, volunteer in the IRA. He once described himself as a "a drinker with a writing problem". Collapsed in a Dublin bar and die...
1 memorial
Andrea Levy
Born at the Whittington Hospital to Jamaican parents and and grew up in Twyford House on the Blackstock council estate. Best known for her novels 'Small Island' and 'The Long Song'. She wrote from ...
1 memorial
Dr. John William Polidori
This entry has kindly been written for us by Franklin Bishop, expert on Polidori, and editor of "John William Polidori ‘The Vampyre’ and other writings", 2005. Polidori wrote The Vampyre, a novell...
1 memorial
Robert Aickman
Author and conservationist. Born at 77 Fellows Road, Hampstead. One of the founders of the Inland Waterways Association, where he met and collaborated rather too closely with the author Elizabeth J...
1 memorial
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Toynbee Hall Gatehouse
E1, Commercial Street, 28, Profumo House
From Toynbee Hall we learn that the original 1884 building was destroyed by WW2 bombs. The Gatehouse was built on the site in 1965, “with...
1 subject commemorated,
2 creators
Robert H. Pearson
Co-churchwarden of Mary Abbots Church, Kensington, June 1879.
1 memorial
King Cadwaladr
King of the Britons. Born Wales, father of Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon (king of Gwynedd in Wales c.655-682). Legend says that he built the first St Martin within Ludgate church, that his image was place...
3 memorials
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