Person    | Female  Born 1898  Died 29/9/1935

Michael Flanders

Broadcaster, writer and performer. Born Michael Henry Flanders in Hampstead. He served in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, but contracted poliomyelitis and spent the rest of his life as a wheelcha...

Person, Literature, Music / songs, Theatre, TV & Radio, Wales

Sir Henry Rider Haggard

Novelist. Born at Wood Farm, West Bradenham, Norfolk. At the age of nineteen he was sent to Natal to serve the Lieutenant-Governor, as his father said he was only fit to be a greengrocer. He achiev...

Person, Law, Literature, South Africa

Jonathan Swift

Person, Literature

Homer

Ancient Greek poet. Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, which date from somewhere in the range 9th - 7th century BC.

Person, Literature, Greece

Arthur Symons

Literary scholar and author. Born in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales. A member of The Rhymers' Club. Died at home at Wittersham, Kent.

Person, Literature, Wales