Person    | Female  Born 21/4/1816  Died 31/3/1855

Charlotte Brontë

Novelist and poet. Born Yorkshire, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters. Novels include: Jane Eyre, Shirley. To avoid gender prejudice she and her sisters, Emily and Anne published first under pseudonyms, Charlotte's being Currer Bell. July 1848 Charlotte and Anne came to London to meet their publisher, George Smith, to disprove the rumour that they were all the same author.

Londonist's post 'Charlotte Brontë's London, And Why She Wasn't A Fan' tells of Charlotte's five visits to London.

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Charlotte Brontë

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CI - 8 - Books

This carving depicts the two Brontë sisters meeting Thackeray, but rather fai...

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Justin H. McCarthy

Justin H. McCarthy

Born Dunmanway, near Cork, Ireland. Politician and writer. He wrote or co-wrote more than 50 novels including ‘Miss Misanthrope’ and ‘Donna Quixote’. Member of parliament from 1886 to 1900. Died Lo...

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Ireland

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Kit-Cat Club

Kit-Cat Club

18th century London club with political (Whig) and literary interests. Tending to the clandestine it met, at different periods, at the Trumpet Tavern, the Fountain Tavern and at Barn Elms. In sum...

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Major Byron F. Caws

Major Byron F. Caws

Believed to have assisted Fowler in his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The Latin on the memorial, 'castigavit et emendavit', translates as “he corrected and improved“, which is quite an ac...

Person, Architecture, Armed Forces, Engineering, Literature

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George Moore

George Moore

Writer. Born George Augustus Moore at Moore Hall, Lough Carra, County Mayo, Ireland.  He gave up a military career to live a bohemian life in London and Paris, and became a novelist of the 'Realist...

Person, Literature, France, Ireland

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