| First Name |
Last Name |
Bio | Gender | Occupation | Born | Died | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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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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Charles |
Prentice |
Charles Harold Curtis Prentice was an influential British publisher who worked for Chatto & Windus from 1914-1935, where he replaced Percy Spalding as a senior |
Male | Publisher | 1891 Nov 4th | 1949 Jun 30th |
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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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Rainer Maria |
Rilke |
Rainer Maria Rilke was one of the most significant modernists to write in German. Born in Prague, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he escaped the military career expected by his father and devoted himself to literature. |
Male | Novelist, Poet | 1875 Dec 4th | 1926 Dec 29th |
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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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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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Fredegond |
Shove |
Fredegond Shove (née Maitland) was born at Downing College, Cambridge in 1889. |
Female | Poet, Writer | 1899 | 1949 Sep |
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Alix |
Strachey |
‘I caught Alix in profile & saw her old, masterly, advanced’, wrote Virginia Woolf in her diary (Diary 2:135-136) and she was right: Alix Strachey was to become masterly and advanced but her role as one of the first Br |
Female | Translator, Writer, Psychoanalyst | 4 June 1892 | 28 April 1973 |
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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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Franz |
von Ullman |
Hungarian literary agent or publisher |
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Hugh |
Walpole |
Hugh Seymour Walpole was born on 13 March 1884 in Parnell, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand. His father was the Revd George Henry Somerset Walpole, the first Precentor of Truro Cathedral. |
Male | Writer | 1884 | 1941 |
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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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Cecil Nathan Sidney |
Woolf |
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Male | 1887 | 1917 |
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