Novel by Charles Dickens. Originally published in serial form 1843–4. The picture is an ilustration by Fred Barnard from the 1870s.
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Martin Chuzzlewit
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Black Bull Inn, W6
This is a much travelled bull. It was sculpted by Obadiah Pulham at Woodbridg...
Dickens at Cobley Farm
Returned from his first trip to America Dickens spent some time here in 1842-...
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Samuel Augustine Courtauld
Philanthropist and editor. Associated with Halstead, Braintree. Almost certainly related to Samuel Courtauld of Institute fame but we cannot discover how.
1 memorial
Reverend Sydney Smith
Wit, for example "I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so." Born Woodford, London. Died at home in Green Street, London.
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
G. K. Chesterton
Writer. Born 32 Sheffield Terrace, Campden Hill, as Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Best known for the Father Brown stories. He often wrote about religion and in 1922 converted to Roman Catholicism. In l...
4 memorials
James Leasor
Writer. Born in Erith, Kent. During WW2 he served in Burma where he spent eighteen hours adrift in the Indian Ocean after his ship was torpedoed. After the war he joined the Daily Express and becam...
1 memorial
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