John Galsworthy was born in Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey on August 14th 1867. The family was weal..

Born in 1857 in Poland Joseph Conrad became a British citizen just before he turned 30.

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Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born on 24th September 1896 in Saint Paul Minnesota into an upper-m..

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Elizabeth Gaskell is equally well known as Mrs Gaskell. When her mother died she was three months ol..

Born in 1797 her Mother died when she was only 11 days old. Mary was then raised by her Father who r..

In this age of instant access to information it would be thought that anyone?s past could be reveale..

Vernon Lee was born Violet Paget on 4th October 1856 in Boulogne France to intellectual expatriate B..

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Jules Gabriel Verne was born on February 8th 1828 on ?le Feydeau a small artificial island on the Lo..

William Makepeace Thackeray the great author of Vanity Fair and The Luck of Barry Lyndon was born in..

Herbert George Wells was born on September 21st 1866 in Bromley in Kent. He was the youngest of four..

Margaret Oliphant Wilson was born on 4th April 1828 in East Lothian in Scotland but spent her childh..

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