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Born August 17, 1840 • Petworth House • England
Died September 10, 1922 (aged 82) • England
Notable Works “The Future of Islam”
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Thomas Cooper
British writer
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Siegfried Sassoon, wearing a British army uniform and cap, looks directly at the camera in this 1915 black-and-white portrait.
Siegfried Sassoon
British writer
Illustration from Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe
English author
Portrait of Gilbert Keith Chesterton wearing glasses and a suit, with a mustache and tousled hair, looking directly at the camera.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
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Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Thomas Otway
English author
Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
British author
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Thom Gunn
British poet
C. Day-Lewis, 1968.
C. Day-Lewis
British poet
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Joseph Blanco White
Spanish-English writer
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
British author
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John Lehmann
British poet
Portrait of John Masefield, English poet and novelist, c. 1915, showing him in a suit with a high white collar and a contemplative expression.
John Masefield
British poet
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Geoffrey Grigson
British editor and poet
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Jack Clemo
British poet
Robert W. Service
Robert W. Service
Canadian writer
Phillpotts, Eden
Eden Phillpotts
British writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author

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