Social researcher and journalist. Born London. Joint founding editor with Mark Lemon, of the magazine 'Punch' and author of 'London Labour and the London Poor'. Born into a wealthy London family, of seventeen children. Died 8 Tavistock Street. Good article at London Historians.
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Henry Mayhew
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Henry Mayhew
Henry Mayhew, 1812 - 1887, founder of 'Punch' and author of 'London Labour an...
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Robert Maxwell
Publisher, politician and swindler. Born Ján Ludvík Hyman Binyamin Hoch, in Slatinské Doly (now Solotyino, Ukraine). He came to Britain after WW2 where he built up the Pergamon Press, acquired the ...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Politics & Administration, Czechoslovakia
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Dilys Powell
Journalist. Born Elizabeth Dilys Powell at Lloyd's Bank, Bridgnorth, Shropshire. Although she claimed to have little knowledge of cinema, she was the well-respected film critic for the Sunday Times...
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Edwin Arnold
Journalist and poet, Born at Gravesend. In 1852 he obtained the Newdigate prize for his first poem, 'The Feast of Belshazzar' ('High on a throne of ivory and gold, From crown to footstool clad in p...
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Henry Brooks Adams
Apart from the fact that he won a Pulitzer for "Education of Henry Adams," 1919, all that the web can supply for him is quotations. You might have better luck. We published this plaque in 2009 and...
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Lippincott's Magazine
Monthly magazine. Published in Philadelphia until 1915 when it relocated to New York to become McBride's Magazine. It merged with Scribner's Magazine in 1916. It published original works, general a...
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