Novelist and poet. Born at 73 High Street, Portsmouth, Hampshire. As a writer of novels and poems, his income was uncertain and he supplemented it as a publisher's reader. In this capacity he befriended many famous authors including Dante Rossetti, Swinburne and Robert Louis Stevenson. Died at Flint Cottage, Box Hill, Surrey.
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George Meredith
Greater London Council George Meredith, O.M., 1828-1909, poet and novelist, l...
Playwright, novelist and critic. Born Bromley, Kent, son of the engineer Sir Charles Langbridge Morgan. Died at the house with the plaque.
Author and bookseller and the only child of author A. A. Milne and Daphne Milne. As a child, he was the basis of the character Christopher Robin in his father's Winnie-the-Pooh stories and in two b...
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...
A series of books created by the illusrator Cicely Mary Barker. The first one was published in 1923
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