Books and Writers

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DAHL, ROALD
Novelist and children's writer

DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT
Naturalist and writer, Married his cousin Emma Wedgwood (1808-1896) in 1839. They had 10 children

DAVIES, WILLIAM HENRY
Poet, who spent many years tramping Britain & America. Lost his right foot jumping a freight train. A Civil List pension was granted him in 1911. Married Helen Payne in 1923

DE LA MARE, WALTER JOHN
Poet & Novelist. Huguenot descent. Married Constance Ingpen in 1899

DEFOE, DANIEL
Novelist, Journalist, Pamphleteer & Political Agent. Travelled as a merchant and probable spy round Britain & Europe before becoming a writer. Produced maybe 500 books

DEIGHTON, LEN
Novelist, Cookery writer & artist. Creator of Harry Palmer

DICK, PHILIP KENDRED
Science Fiction Novelist. Committed suicide

DICTIONARIES, BOOKS ON

DICTIONARY
The word dictionarius was used as early as 1225 for a list of Latin words, but was not generally in use in its modern sense until the 16thC

DISNEY, WALT (WALTER ELIAS)
Animator. His first film was "Alice in Wonderland" in 1923

DISRAELI, BENJAMIN, 1ST EARL OF BEACONSFIELD
British Prime Minister 1868 & 1874-80. Politician and novelist. Italian-Jewish parents. Married Mary Anne Wyndham Lewis in 1839

DOHERTY, PAUL C
Novelist of medieval crime books

DOMESDAY BOOK
Compiled in 1086, it was mainly a valuation of land and a register of who owned it.

DONNE, JOHN
Metaphysical poet and preacher. In 1601 entered parliament as MP for Brackley and married Ann More the same year

DOUGLAS, GEORGE NORMAN
Novelist & Travel writer. Made his home on the isle of Capri in the Mediterranean. Committed suicide.

DOYLE, RICHARD
Writer and book illustrator. Wrote and designed for Punch. Designed its cover. Son of John Doyle, who trained him

DRYDEN, JOHN
Poet and Dramatist. Married Lady Elizabeth Howard in 1663. Hostile to revolution of 1688 and thereafter mainly translated classics. Made Poet Laureate in 1668 (to 1688) for his adherence to the Stewart restoration. The family home from the 1550s was Canons Ashby, Daventry. Buried in Westminster Abbey

DU MAURIER, DAME DAPHNE
Novelist. 2nd daughter of Sir Gerald Du Maurier (actor) & grandaughter of George Du Maurier. Married Lieut-Gen Sir Frederick Browning in 1932

DUKES

DULAC, EDMUND
Book illustrator. Settled in London from 1906, becoming a naturalized subject in 1912

DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
Novelist. Wrote over 277 works

DUNSANY, LORD (EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT), 18TH BARON
Dramatist, Chess Champion, Sportsman, Soldier, Adventurer and fiction writer. Married Beatrice Child Villiers in 1904. Lived a privileged life devoted to pleasurable pursuits, ie hunting, cricket, travel and sport, inheriting the Lord title from his father in 1899

DURRELL, LAWRENCE
Novelist & Poet. Lived in France