First Name | Last Name | Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
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Edward |
McKnight Kauffer |
E. |
Male | Artist, Book Illustrator | 1890 | 1954 |
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John |
Rodker |
John Rodker was born in Manchester on 18th December 1894. The son of Jewish immigrants originating from Poland, his family moved from Manchester to London when he was six years old. |
Male | 1894 Dec 18th | 1955 Oct 6th | |
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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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Frank |
Prewett |
Canadian war poet Frank James Prewett (nicknamed “Toronto”) was born August 24, 1893 near Mt. Forest, Ontario on his maternal grandfather’s farm. This son of Arthur H. |
Writer | 1893 Feb 24th | 1962 Feb 16th | |
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Vita |
Sackville-West |
Victoria [Vita] Mary Sackville-West, poet, novelist, and horticultural journalist, was born on 9th March 1892 at Knole, near Sevenoaks, and died on 2nd June 1962 at Sissinghurst. |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1892 Mar 9th | 1962 Jun 2nd |
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Clive |
Bell |
Clive Bell was born in East Shefford, Berkshire on 16th September 1881. His parents were William Heward Bell and Hannah Taylor Cory. They had three other children: Cory and Lorna (elder) and Dorothy (younger). |
Male | Critic, Writer | 1881 | 1964 |
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Thomas |
Eliot |
A poet, dramatist, critic, editor, and publisher, Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) ranks among the most influential figures in twentieth-century European letters. Born in St. |
Male | Writer | 1888 Sep 26th | 1965 Jan 4th |
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James |
Strachey |
Journalist, psychoanalyst, translator, and member of the Bloomsbury Group, James Beaumont Strachey was born to Sir Richard and Lady Strachey on 26 September 1887 as the youngest of thirteen children. |
Male | Translator | 1887 Sep 26th | 1967 Apr 25th |
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Harold |
Nicolson |
Harold George Nicolson was born in 1886 in Tehran and died in 1968 at Sissinghurst Castle. |
Male | Diplomat, Politician, Writer | 1886 | 1968 |
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Kingsley |
Martin |
Basil Kingsley Martin, editor of the New Statesman and Nation from 1931-1960, advocated the idea that a free press which promotes information literacy is one of the most important traits of democratic society. |
Male | Editor, Journalist | 1897 Jul 28th | 1969 Feb 16th |
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Willa |
Muir |
Willa Muir, née Wilhelmina Johnston Anderson, was called Minnie as a child and sometimes published under the name Agnes Neill Scott. |
Female | Translator, Writer | 1890 Mar 13th | 1970 May 22nd |
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Sylva |
Norman |
Best known for work on Shelley. Married Edmund Blunden in 1933 (after her HP book published, 1929), divorced 1945 (no children). |
Female | Critic, Writer | 1906 | 1971 |
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John |
Banting |
John Banting was born in London in 1902. His father was a teacher and a bookbinder. Banting trained as a painter with Bernard Meninsky in London and at the free academies in Paris. As a young artist, he was influenced by Vorticism and later turned to Surrealism. His studio was in Fitzroy Squa |
Male | Artist, Book Illustrator | 1902 May 12th | 1972 Jan 30th |
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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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William |
Plomer |
Born to English parents in Pietersburg, South Africa on 10 December 1903, William Plomer would find early success with his novel Turbott Wolfe |
Male | Editor, Novelist, Writer | 1903 Dec 10th | 1973 Sep 20th |
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Storer |
Lunt |
Storer Boardman Lunt was born on July 8th, 1897 in Portland, Maine. Lunt lived a relatively quiet and modest personal life. At the age of 21, he briefly joined the army in World War I in field artillery. |
Male | Press Worker, Publisher | 1897 Jul 8th | 1977 Sep 10th |
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Hope |
Mirrlees |
Hope (Helen) Mirrlees, poet, novelist, biographer and translator, was born April 8, 1887, at Erpingham near Chislehurst, Kent, the eldest child of William Julius Mirrlees and Emily Mirrlees (née Moncrieff). |
Female | Biographer, Novelist, Poet, Writer | 1887 Apr 8th | 1978 Aug 1st |
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Margaret |
Miller |
Margaret Stevenson Miller was born in 1896 and was not only a scholar, but also one of the pioneers for the fight against legislation preventing married women from retaining their jobs. Miller attended Edinburgh University, where she received her Masters degree and Bachelor’s of commerce. |
Female | Academic, Activist, Writer | 1896 | 1978 Mar 4th |
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Rebecca |
West |
Rebecca West was born Cicely Isabel Fairfield in 1892. |
Female | Critic, Journalist, Writer | 1892 Dec 21st | 1983 Mar 15th |
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Robert |
Graves |
Robert von Ranke Graves (1895–1985) was a poet, lecturer and novelist born in Wimbledon on July 24th 1895 to Alfred Perceval Graves (1846–1931) and Amalie Elizabeth Sophie (1857–1951). |
Male | Academic, Critic, Poet, Publisher, Writer | 1895 | 1985 |