Fiction    From 1848 

Vanity Fair

Categories: Literature

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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Vanity Fair

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Chiswick Square

The houses each side were built about 1680. Boston House built in 1740, on th...

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Mabel Dearmer

Mabel Dearmer

Novelist, playwright, translator and illustrator.  Born Jessie Mabel Prichard White, daughter of Surgeon-Major William White. Her illustrations were accepted by the Yellow Book. 1892 married Percy ...

Person, Art, Literature, Theatre, Balkans

War dead, WW1
2 memorials
A. A. Milne

A. A. Milne

Author. Born Alan Alexander Milne at Henley House, Mortimer Road, Kilburn. Best known as the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh and Christopher Robin, named after his son.  1925 Milne bought Cotchford Far...

Person, Children, Literature, Seriously Famous

2 memorials
The Village in the Jungle

The Village in the Jungle

Novel written by Leonard Woolf, published 1913, based on his experiences as a colonial civil servant in British-controlled Ceylon, but unusually written from the native point of view.

Fiction, Literature, Sri Lanka

1 memorial
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Born in Edinburgh where he trained as a doctor. Extremely successful writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories. A sportsman: a boxer, a cricketer who once dismissed W. G. Grace. The first Englishman to...

Person, Literature, Paranormal, Seriously Famous, Scotland

7 memorials
Sister Nivedita

Sister Nivedita

Social worker and author. Born Margaret Elizabeth Noble, in Dungannon, County Tyrone. She came to London, where in 1895 she met Swami Vivekananda. She became his follower and travelled to India wit...

Person, Literature, Social Welfare, India, Ireland

1 memorial