Literary critic.
Born Peckham. Husband of Katherine Mansfield and on her death married a woman who strongly resembled her and also died of tuberculosis. His 3rd marriage was a disaster but he finally got it right with number 4. He spent much of his life promoting Mansfield's work. Died in hospital at Bury St Edmunds.
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John Middleton Murry
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Katherine Mansfield & J.M. Murry
Greater London Council Katherine Mansfield, 1888 - 1923, writer, and her hus...
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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
Beatrix Potter
Artist, writer and sheep breeder. Born Helen Beatrix Potter at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington where she lived in the third floor nursery until she was in her thirties. She used her second name ...
Person, Art, Children, Animals, Literature, Seriously Famous
1 memorial
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, D.B.E., F.R.S.L.
Author. She has won the Booker Prize twice with 'Wolf Hall' (a fictional account of the rise to power of Thomas Cromwell) and 'Bring up the Bodies'. Hilary Mary Thompson was born on 6 July 1952 in...
1 memorial
Homer
Ancient Greek poet. Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, which date from somewhere in the range 9th - 7th century BC.
5 memorials
G. A. Henty
Author. Born George Alfred Henty in Trumpington, near Cambridge. He volunteered for the Army Hospital Commissariat, and was sent to the Crimea, where he witnessed the appalling conditions under whi...
1 memorial
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