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Born October 26, 1846 • Bath • England
Died January 1, 1932 (aged 85) • Manchester • England
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British poet and author
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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St. John Henry Newman
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British theologian
W.H. Auden
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The man who invented Middle-earth
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Robert Southey
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Paul Muldoon
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Northern Irish poet
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Thomas Sheraton
English furniture designer
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James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
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Margaret Drabble
British author
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A.L. Rowse
British historian and writer
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Design for a sofa by George Hepplewhite, engraving from his book, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide (1788).
George Hepplewhite
British cabinetmaker
William Thomas Stead, c. 1890.
William Thomas Stead
British journalist
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Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic