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Born March 9, 1905 • London • England
Died October 27, 1993 (aged 88) • London • England
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Sir J. C. Squire
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H.L. Mencken
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American writer
Manuel Gálvez
Argentine author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
British author
William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt
British writer
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
British artist and writer
Thomas Hood, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Hood
British poet
John Strachey
British writer and politician
Portrait of William Michael Rossetti by Sir William Rothenstein, oil on canvas, 1909; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Michael Rossetti
English art 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
Henry Mayhew
British journalist
Lytton Strachey
British biographer