Books and Writers

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NABOKOV, VLADIMIR (VLADIMIROVICCH)
Novelist. Came to England during the Revolution, subsequently lived in Germany & France. 1940 emigrated to USA. Lived in Montreaux, Switzerland from 1959

NAPOLEONIC WARS

NASH, FREDERIC OGDEN
Humorous poet. Married Frances Rider Leonard 1931

NASH, PAUL
Artist. Elder brother of John Nash. Married Margaret Theodosia in 1914. Official war artist in WW1 & WW2

NESBIT, EDITH
Prolific Children's writer & Poet. Married Fabian Socialist, Hubert Bland (died 1914) in 1880 & Thomas Tucker in 1917.

NEW NATURALIST SERIES
Published by Collins from 1945

NEW YORKER, THE
Magazine first issued on 21st February, 1925. Founded and edited by Harold Wallace Ross (b1892 in the Rockies, died 1951). He was succeeded by William Shawn

NEWBERY, JOHN
Publisher & Bookseller. Began publishing in Reading (possibly with a partner called Micklewright) in 1740 (where he owned the Reading Mercury) and moved to London in 1744. The first publisher to produce children's books. Branched out into newspapers, magazines & a manufacturer of patent medicines. Published the periodical "The Public Ledger".

NEWBERY AWARDS 1922-1998
Awarded each year by the American Library Association for distinguished children's books

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NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS ON

NEWTON, SIR ISAAC
Scientist & Mathematician who formulated the theory of gravity & invented calculus

NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE
Nurse and writer. Single. In 1853 Superintendent of a hospital for invalid women in London. She volunteered for the Crimean War, taking 38 nurses to Scutari in 1854. By her mothods she drastically reduced the mortality rate in the hospital. £5000 was raised for her to establish a training hospital for nurses at St Thomas's & at King's College Hospital

NISTER, ERNEST
Printer & Publisher based in Nuremberg. Set up a London office in1888 under the direction of the writer Robert Ellice Mack

NOBEL , ALFRED BERNHARD
Industrialist who created a Dynamite empire (his fortune was estimated at £2m on his death) and created the Nobel Prizes in 1901 (there are five prizes in all - Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine & Peace). In 1998 each Prize was worth £600,000 (although they amount varies from year to year)

NONESUCH PRESS, THE
Private Press set up in 1923 by Sir Francis Meynell. At Standard Road, Park Royal Road, London NW10 in 1950. By 1994 it was part of Reinhardt Books Ltd

NOYES, ALFRED
Poet who, unusually, managed to live by his poetry (only Tennyson had achieved this previously). Married Garnet Daniels in 1907 (died 1926) & Mary Wild-Blundell in 1927. Became a Catholic in 1927

NYE, ROBERT
Novelist, Poet & children's writer. Married artist and psychologist, Aileen Campbell, in 1968