Adventurer and author. Born Venice. First came to London in 1763. Father to two of Teresa Cornelys's children. Died in Bohemia.
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Casanova
Commemorated ati
Spirit of Soho Mural
Interesting that Coca Cola are specifically mentioned on the panel but not as...
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Smith, Elder & Co.
Publishers at 65 Cornhill (the picture) until 1868. Also at 15 Waterloo Place. Their first big success was Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. They also published: Thackeray, Darwin, Ruskin, Browning...
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist. Born to an aristocratic Russian family. 1870s had a spiritual awakening and become a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Religion, Seriously Famous, Russia
Percy Fitzgerald, FSA
Sculptor, painter and author. Born Ireland. The picture source website has a second picture of Fitzgerald, sadly no more flattering than this one.
Henry Buxton Forman
Born Camden Place, Southampton Street, Camberwell. Bibliographer and forger. An authority on the lives and works of Shelley and Keats. He also had a lifelong career in the Post Office and was award...
Person, Journalism / Publishing, Literature, Museums / Libraries, Politics & Administration
Winifred Holtby
Born Yorkshire. Graduated with and maintained a long friendship with Vera Brittain. Writer, reformer and pacifist.
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