Publishers at 65 Cornhill (the picture) until 1868. Also at 15 Waterloo Place. Their first big success was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. They also published: Thackeray, Darwin, Ruskin, Browning, Eliot, Gaskell, Hardy, Swinburne, etc.
It was here that Charlotte and Anne Bronte presented themselves to their publisher, George Smith, thus proving that they were not the same person and, shock, not men.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Smith, Elder & Co.
This carving depicts the two Brontë sisters meeting Thackeray, but rather fai...
First Chairman and Trustee of the Jubilee Market Traders Committee.
Businessman. Born Philip Charles Harris. Former chairman of Carpetright plc, he has over 50 years’ experience in carpet retailing. He is the sponsor of the Harris Federation of primary and secondar...
From the V&A website: "The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations was held in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London. It was the first international exhibition of manufacture...
Asher Lehmann Meyer Gluckstein was born in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. HIs family chose the surname Gluckstein (lucky stone) when living under Napoleonic rule in Bremen (now in Germany). As a you...
Trustee of The Memorial Gates Trust. Lakshmi Niwas Mittal was born on 15 June 1950 in Sadulpur, Rajasthan, India. Our Picture Source gives details about the life of this man.
Person, Benefactor, Commerce, Politics & Administration, India
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the first directly elected strategic local government body for London. Replaced by the Greater London Council, covering a la...
Former cavalry regiment, officially the Sixth Dragoon Guards. They participated in putting down the rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie in 1745-46 and fought in the Peninsular, Crimean and Boer Wars...
Built following an appeal (largely organised by women) throughout the British Empire. It provided 205 single cabins for homeless merchant seamen in London, and by 1929 had accommodated over a milli...
Sorry, we've done no research on WW2, it's just too big a subject. But do visit the picture source web site - it has a fascinating collection of maps. And we enjoyed these photos of current WW2 ev...
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