Written by Herman Melville. First published, in London, in 1851.
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Moby Dick
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Herman Melville
Herman Melville, 1819 - 1891, author of Moby Dick, lived here in 1849. Englis...
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Roy Porter
Historian. Born Roy Sydney Porter at Foxholes, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. Published his first book 'The Making of Geology in Britain' in 1977. He was a lecturer at Cambridge and the Wellcome Institute...
Edmond Malone
Shakespearian scholar. Born in Dublin. Our picture source gives a biography of his life.
Lord John Russell
Author, Prime Minister. Â Born Hertford Street, Mayfair, the 3rd son of the Duke of Bedford. First Earl Russell. One of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition, 1851. Â Prime Minister: 1846-52, 18...
John Ruskin
Author, poet, artist and art critic. Born at 54 Hunter Street, Brunswick Square. His first prose work was published in 1834 when he was only 15. He was a friend of Turner and became his executor. I...
Vita Sackville-West
Writer and gardener. Born Victoria Mary Sackville-West at Knole, near Sevenoaks, Kent, the only child of Lionel Sackville-West, 3rd Baron Sackville. She started writing at an early age, having many...
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