Born in Paris. Adam Thorpe has written "Conscious of her physical plainness but 'irresistibly seductive' in conversation, her salons were the focal point for pre-revolutionary reform, and eventually became the bane of Napoleon's rule." She escaped Napoleon by temporary exile to Russia and England. She believed that "a society's treatment of its female citizens was the measure of its civilisation". Died at home in Paris.
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Anne Louise Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein
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Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein
1813 - 1814, Germaine Necker Baronne de Staël-Holstein, lived in a house on t...
Spirit of Soho Mural
Interesting that Coca Cola are specifically mentioned on the panel but not as...
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Kenneth Grahame
Author. Born Edinbugh. Aged 5 lost his mother and was brought up in England by his grandparents. Very successful at school in Oxford, he was denied university for financial reasons, which explains ...
2 memorials
Rose Macaulay
Born Rugby. Died at home, 20 Hinde House, Hinde Street. Her novels include The Towers of Trebizond (1956).
1 memorial
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...
Group, Community / Clubs, Literature, Politics & Administration
1 memorial
Stevie Smith
Author and poet. Born Florence Margaret Smith in Kingston upon Hull. She supposedly got her nickname when out riding with a friend, who thought she looked like the jockey Steve Donoghue. Her father...
1 memorial
Gavin Maxwell
Author and Naturalist. Born at House of Elrig, Mochrum, Wigtownshire. During World War II he served as an instructor with the Special Operations Executive. In 1956 he toured the reed marshes of Sou...
1 memorial
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