First Name | Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
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John |
Banting |
John Banting was born in London in 1902. His father was a teacher and a bookbinder. Banting trained as a painter with Bernard Meninsky in London and at the free academies in Paris. As a young artist, he was influenced by Vorticism and later turned to Surrealism. His studio was in Fitzroy Squa |
Male | Artist, Book Illustrator | 1902 May 12th | 1972 Jan 30th |
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Sylva |
Norman |
Best known for work on Shelley. Married Edmund Blunden in 1933 (after her HP book published, 1929), divorced 1945 (no children). |
Female | Critic, Writer | 1906 | 1971 |
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Willa |
Muir |
Willa Muir, née Wilhelmina Johnston Anderson, was called Minnie as a child and sometimes published under the name Agnes Neill Scott. |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1890 Mar 13th | 1970 May 22nd |
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Kingsley |
Martin |
Basil Kingsley Martin, editor of the New Statesman and Nation from 1931-1960, advocated the idea that a free press which promotes information literacy is one of the most important traits of democratic society. |
Male | Editor, Journalist | 1897 Jul 28th | 1969 Feb 16th |
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Harold |
Nicolson |
Harold George Nicolson was born in 1886 in Tehran and died in 1968 at Sissinghurst Castle. |
Male | Diplomat, Politician, Writer | 1886 | 1968 |
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James |
Strachey |
Journalist, psychoanalyst, translator, and member of the Bloomsbury Group, James Beaumont Strachey was born to Sir Richard and Lady Strachey on 26 September 1887 as the youngest of thirteen children. |
Male | Translator | 1887 Sep 26th | 1967 Apr 25th |
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Thomas |
Eliot |
A poet, dramatist, critic, editor, and publisher, Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) ranks among the most influential figures in twentieth-century European letters. Born in St. |
Male | Writer | 1888 Sep 26th | 1965 Jan 4th |
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Clive |
Bell |
Clive Bell was born in East Shefford, Berkshire on 16th September 1881. His parents were William Heward Bell and Hannah Taylor Cory. They had three other children: Cory and Lorna (elder) and Dorothy (younger). |
Male | Critic, Writer | 1881 | 1964 |
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Vita |
Sackville-West |
Victoria [Vita] Mary Sackville-West, poet, novelist, and horticultural journalist, was born on 9th March 1892 at Knole, near Sevenoaks, and died on 2nd June 1962 at Sissinghurst. |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1892 Mar 9th | 1962 Jun 2nd |
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Frank |
Prewett |
Canadian war poet Frank James Prewett (nicknamed “Toronto”) was born August 24, 1893 near Mt. Forest, Ontario on his maternal grandfather’s farm. This son of Arthur H. |
Writer | 1893 Feb 24th | 1962 Feb 16th | |
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Caroline Jane Mary |
Hubback |
C.J.M. Hubback worked as a translator for Sigmund Freud in the 1920s. Beyond this, little else was known until recently. |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1871 Aug 17th | 1959 |
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John |
Rodker |
John Rodker was born in Manchester on 18th December 1894. The son of Jewish immigrants originating from Poland, his family moved from Manchester to London when he was six years old. |
Male | 1894 Dec 18th | 1955 Oct 6th | |
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Edward |
McKnight Kauffer |
E. |
Male | Artist, Book Illustrator | 1890 | 1954 |
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Ivan |
Bunin |
The Bunin family lived in Voronezh until 1874 before moving to the family estate in Butyriki in the Oryol province of central Russia when Ivan was four years old. He lived here and was tutored by amateur artist and musician Nikolai Romashkov until August 1881 when he started school. |
Male | Writer | 1870 Oct 22nd | 1953 Nov 8th |
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Charles |
Davies |
Charles Davies was a Welsh-born writer, poet, and lecturer. He was born in 1901 in Penclawdd, Glamorganshire. He began his studies at the University College, Aberystwyth. |
Male | Academic, Writer | 1901 | 1953 |
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Fredegond |
Shove |
Fredegond Shove (née Maitland) was born at Downing College, Cambridge in 1889. |
Female | Poet, Writer | 1899 | 1949 Sep |
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Charles |
Prentice |
Charles Harold Curtis Prentice was an influential British publisher who worked for Chatto & Windus from 1914-1935, where he replaced Percy Spalding as a senior |
Male | Publisher | 1891 Nov 4th | 1949 Jun 30th |
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Francesca |
Allinson |
Francesca Allinson (known as Fresca) was born Enid Ellen Pulvermacher Allinson in 1902. She was the fifth child of early whole foods advocate Dr T.R. |
Female | Writer | 1902 Aug 20th | 1945 Apr 7th |
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Hugh |
Walpole |
Hugh Seymour Walpole was born on 13 March 1884 in Parnell, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. His father was the Revd George Henry Somerset Walpole, the first Precentor of Truro Cathedral. |
Male | Writer | 1884 | 1941 |
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Julian |
Bell |
Julian Bell (1908-1937) was the elder son of Vanessa and Clive Bell and the nephew of Virginia Woolf. As such he literally grew up at the very heart of Bloomsbury. |
Male | Poet | 1908 Feb 4th | 1937 Jul 18th |