First Name |
Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
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Charlotte |
Mew |
Charlotte Mary Mew (1869-1928) was a poet, fiction writer, and dramatist born in Bloomsbury, London on November 15th, 1869 to architect Frederick Mew (1833-1898) and his wife, Anna Maria Kendall (1837-1923). Mew’s childhood was altogether a happy one. |
Female | Poet, Writer | 1869 Nov 15th | 1928 Mar 24th |
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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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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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Cecil Nathan Sidney |
Woolf |
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Male | 1887 | 1917 | |
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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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Blanche |
Knopf |
Blanche Wolf Knopf was an American publisher who served as vice president and director of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. from 1918 to 1957 and was the firm’s president from 1957 until her death in 1966. |
Female | Publisher | 30 July 1894 | 4 June 1966 |
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Beatrice |
Hasting |
Few people know of Beatrice Hastings today, although she was one of modernism’s most complicated and memorable figures. |
Female | Editor, Writer | 27 January 1879 | 30 October 1943 |
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Barrington |
Gates |
Sidney Barrington “Barry” Gates was a scientist, an artist, a father and a friend. During his lifetime he wrote over 150 journal articles in the aerodynamic field, multiple collections of poetry, short plays, and contributed to various magazines as a book critic. |
Male | Aviation Consultant, Scientist | 1893 | 1973 |
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Anna |
D. Whyte |
Little is known about the personal life of the enigmatic author Anna D. Whyte. Believed to be born in 1909 in New Zealand, many of her early and later years remain a mystery. |
Female | Novelist | 1909 | |
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Angelica |
Garnett |
Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell) was born on December 25th, 1918 in Charleston, Sussex and died on May 4th, 2012 in Aix-en-Provence. |
Female | Artist, Book Illustrator, Writer | 1918 Dec 25th | 2012 May 4th |
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Alix |
Strachey |
‘I caught Alix in profile & saw her old, masterly, advanced’, wrote Virginia Woolf in her diary (Diary 2:135-136) and she was right: Alix Strachey was to become masterly and advanced but her role as one of the first Br |
Female | Translator, Writer, Psychoanalyst | 4 June 1892 | 28 April 1973 |
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Alice |
Meynell |
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson) was born near London but spent much of her childhood in Italy, where the Thompson family could live more cheaply than in England.[1] Her parents provided Alice and her sister Eli |
Female | Editor, Poet, Writer | October 1847 | 27 November 1922 |
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Ahmed |
Ali |
Ahmed Ali was born on 1 July 1910 in Delhi, India. He was born to Syed Shujauddin, a civil servant, and Ahmad Kaniz Asghar Beg. Ali completed his primary schooling moving around different cities before enrolling at Aligarh Muslim University in 1926, where he first took a class in English poetry. |
Male | Academic, Critic, Diplomat, Novelist, Poet, Translator, Radio | 1 July 1910 | 14 January 1994 |
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