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Also Known As Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne Cecil
Born April 9, 1902 • London • England
Died January 1, 1986 (aged 83) • Cranborne Chase • England
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet
Sir Leslie Stephen
British critic
John Wain
British critic and writer
Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Edmund Gosse
British critic and writer
Aldington, Richard
Richard Aldington
English author
portrait of Austin Dobson
Austin Dobson
British author
Lockhart, detail of an oil painting by H.W. Pickersgill, 1830
John Gibson Lockhart
Scottish biographer
Eavan Boland
Irish poet and literary critic
V.S. Pritchett
British writer
Maurice Baring
British author
Saint John Ervine
British dramatist
Edmund Clarence Stedman
American writer
John Morley
John Morley, Viscount Morley
English statesman
Sidney Colvin
English scholar
Mary Novello Clarke
English author
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
prime minister of United Kingdom
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic