Novelist, considered one of the greatest writers in English, despite it not being his mother-tongue. Born into a noble Polish family in what is now Ukraine. Working on ships he came to Britain in 1878 and learnt English. In 1886 he took British nationality. His works include: 'The secret agent' and 'Heart of darkness'. Died at home near Canterbury.
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Joseph Conrad
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Mont Blanc restaurant
City of Westminster Site of the Mont Blanc Restaurant where leading writers,...
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The Time Machine
Novella by H.G. Wells. The unnamed hero of the book travels on the eponymous machine to the year 802,701. Initially he finds the world has become an idyllic place populated by a childlike race call...
1 memorial
Bram Stoker
Novelist and theatre manager. Born Dublin. Came to London in 1878 with his new wife Florence Balcombe, previously Oscar Wilde's squeeze. Wrote Dracula whilst he was Irving’s acting manager at the ...
3 memorials
George MacDonald
Poet, novelist and Christian minister. Born Aberdeenshire. Works include: 'At the Back of the North Wind', 'Lilith'. Influenced: C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, W. H. Auden, Tolkien. Died at Ashtead...
2 memorials
James Bowen
Children's author. Born Surrey as James Anthony Bowen. His mother moved him as a child to Australia. Aged 17 he returned to the UK but he became homeless, began begging and started using heroin. Hi...
1 memorial
Lalla Rookh - poem
An oriental romance by Thomas Moore. The eponymous heroine (the name means 'tulip cheeked') is engaged to the young king of Bukhara. She goes to meet him, but falls in love with Feramorz, a poet fr...
1 memorial
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George III with the River god
WC2, Strand, Somerset House Courtyard
Bronze statue erected in 1789 showing the king who had commissioned the rebuilding of Somerset House. The statue is awash with nautical a...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
C. Harman Wigan
Director of Vinot Cars Ltd. Andrew Behan has kindly carried out some research on this man: Cecil Harman Wigan was born on 7 June 1874 in Mortlake, Surrey, a son of James Wigan and Maria Branley He...
1 memorial
Sir Emery Walker
W6, Hammersmith Terrace, 7
2017: Spitalfields Life has a terrific post on this house: "Emery Walker’s House in Hammersmith Terrace has survived almost as he left it...
1 subject commemorated,
1 creator
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