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Charles Dickens' Memorial in Marylebone

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde The Langham Hotel in London is one of the city's most famous and historic hotels. Built in 1865,...

Kathleen Mansfield Murry (1888-1923) was born on this day (14th of October) in 1888. She was born in New Zealand and moved to England at...

George Orwell lived and worked in a bookshop on this site. Under the pen name of George Orwell, Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950) was a...

From James Bond’s violent assassinations to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang This work is a derivative of "12th August 1964 - Death of Ian...

The London home of famous English novelist Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens, who lived from 1812 to 1870, is indisputably the most famous...

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish writer born in 1850. He came from a family of engineers, studying engineering at the University of...

The name that strikes fear into the heart of capitalists worldwide: Karl Marx

Sylvia Plath’s only novel, The Bell Jar, attracted mediocre reviews upon its publication in 1963. Since then, however, its insight into...

Daunt Books in Marylebone is one of the most impressive bookshops in London; it is an Edwardian building, built in 1912, adorned with oak...

P. L. Travers' House in Chelsea.

Carlyle’s House Museum in London.

So much more than a love story for women. At the time of its reception, Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca was lambasted by many critics as just...

William Shakespeare & Charles Dickens Inspiration. George Inn – or, The George – is a pub first established in the medieval period...

Sigmund Freud was born #onthisday in 1856. Freud (1856-1939) was an Austrian neurologist, physiologist and the developer of...

Some historians thinks that William Shakespeare was born #onthisday 23rd of April in 1564. It is also the same day he died in 1616. The...

Paddington Bear is a fictional character featured in the eponymous books by British author, Thomas Michael Bond. More than 35 million...

Henry James was born on this day (15 April) in 1840. James (1843-1916) was an American-British writer and an important figure in 20th...

One of the largest libraries in the world. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and has around 170–200...

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English author, essayist, publisher and critic. She is recognised as one of the most important...