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William Gaunt (1900-1980) became widely known as an art and social historian through his books on nineteenth-century art and artists. His trilogy of ideas and efforts in the Victorian comprised VICTORIAN OLYMPUS, THE PRE-RAPHAELITE TRAGEDY and THE AESTHETIC ADVENTURE.
P M Hubbard was educated at Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for English Verse in 1933. From 1934 to 1947 he served in the Indian Civil Service and upon its disbandment returned to England to work for the British Council in London. In 1951 he resigned to freelance as a writer. Later he
A E W Mason was born in 1865. He became a successful novelist after failing to become an actor. He is best remembered for THE FOUR FEATHERS (1902, with a film version in 1939). His many other popular works include the series featuring Inspector Hanaud, which began with AT THE VILLA ROSE (1910)
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, KG, GCB, DSO, PC (1887-1976), nicknamed "Monty" and the "Spartan General", saw action in the First World War as a junior officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He took part in the battles of Arras and Passchendaele be
Ralph Hale Mottram (1883-1971) was a novelist, poet, local historian and Lord Mayor of Norwich.
H F M Prescott was born in Cheshire. Hilda Prescott read Modern History at Oxford and later received MA degrees there and at Manchester, as well as an honorary doctorate at Durham. Her biography of Mary Tudor, SPANISH TUDOR, won the James Tait Black Prize in 1941. The daughter of a clergyman,
'Sapper’ was the pseudonym of Herman Cyril McNeile, born in 1888. He was the creator of Hugh ‘Bull-dog’ Drummond, the hefty, ugly, charming, xenophobic, and apparently brainless British ex-army officer who foils the activities of an international crook. He appears in BULL-DOG DRUMMOND (1920),
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest English language poets, a status confirmed by the award of the 1923 Novel Prize for Literature. He was the founder of the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre. At various times revolutionary patriot, upholder of an idealized Celtic tr
TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT Opens in Chichester
TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT opened at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester Wednesday 27th April to great reviews.
