Books and Writers

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TAGORE, SIR RABINDRANATH
Poet, Novelist, Philosopher & Dramatist. Born into a family of religious and social reformers, musicians & artists. Married Mrinalinidebi in 1884. Tried to blend east and west in his works. Nobel Prize 1913 (first Asian recipient). Came to England 1878. Composed over 200 songs. Exhibited his paintings worldwide. Published over 60 works. Resigned his knighthood in 1919 in protest against British policies in the Punjab

TALBOT, ETHEL
Children's Writer of Guide, School and Adventure stories

TARRANT, MARGARET WINIFRED
Artist and Book illustrator. Daughter of artist Percy Tarrant

TATE, JOHN ORLEY ALLEN
Poet, novelist, and critic. Married Caroline Gordon, a novelist, in 1924, Isabella Gardner (poet) in 1959, & Helen Heinz in 1966

TAYLOR, JAMES BAYARD
Poet, Novelist & Traveller. Married Mary Agnew in 1850 (died 1850) and Marie Hanson 1857

TENNIS, WIMBLEDON CHAMPIONSHIPS

TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD, 1ST BARON
Poet. Poet Laureate 1850 and that same year married Emily Sellwood. Buried in Westminster Abbey

THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE
Novelist & ilustrator. Journalist all his life, having lost most of his money gambling. Contributed to Punch and edited 'Cornhill'. Married Isabella Shawe in 1836, but she went mad in the 1840s. Had an unfortunate love affair with his best friend's wife, Jane Brookfield.

THAMES, RIVER

THOMAS, DYLAN MARLAIS
Poet. Married Caitlin Macnamara 1937. An alcoholic, he died in the USA on a lecture tour

THOMAS, PHILIP EDWARD
Poet & Prose Writer. Married Helen Noble in 1899. Killed by a shell at Arras in WW1

THOMPSON, FRANCIS JOSEPH
Catholic Poet & Essayist. Intimate of the Meynells who rescued him from poverty and opium addiction

THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
Essayist, Poet and nature lover. Rebelled against society and lived in a solitary hut at Walden pond, near Concord, cultivating a small plot of land, observing nature and reading and writing (1845-7). Went to prison for one night rather than pay a poll tax to support war and slavery. Died of TB. Only two books published in his lifetime

THURBER, JAMES GROVER
Humorist, Writer & Cartoonist. Worked for The New Yorker from 1933-1961. Blind in one eye from a childhood accident

TITANIC, THE

TOLKIEN, JOHN RONALD REUEL
Novelist and fantasist

TOLSTOY, LEO NIKOLAYEVICH, COUNT
Writer and philosopher. Fought in Crimean War. Of noble family, but freed his serfs and refused to take advantage of his wealth. Married 1862

TOURTEL, MARY
Writer and illustrator. Creator of Rupert Bear. Written by her husband, H B Tourtel, a sub-editor on the Daily Express. She drew the strip for the paper from 1921-1935 when her failing eyesight forced her to hand over to A E Bestall

TRANTER, NIGEL
Historical Novelist, Children's Writer and writer on the Scottish countryside and architecture

TRAVELLER'S LIBRARY, THE

TREASE, ROBERT GEOFFREY
Children's writer. Married Marian Boyer

TREVOR, WILLIAM
Novelist

TROLLOPE, FRANCES MILTON
Novelist & Travel Writer. Married Thomas Anthony Trollope, a barrister, in 1809. They moved to America (1827-30) where he failed as a shopkeeper. Returned to England when her husband died. Spent her last 20 years in Florence. Anthony Trollope was her 3rd son

TROLLOPE, ANTHONY
Novelist. Married Rose Hesletine 1844

TUBB, E (EDWIN) C (CHARLES)
Science Fiction Novelist. Married Iris Kathleen Smith 1944

TUNNICLIFFE, CHARLES FREDERICK
Writer, Illustrator and artist

TUPPER, MARTIN FARQUAR
Poet, Novelist, Playwright & Prose Writer. Married his cousin, Isabelle Devis, in 1835. Inherited and lived at Albury House in Surrey. A terrible stutterer in his early life he turned to poetry and achieved great fame (Especially in America), but today he is barely read or remembered. All his works are out of print.

TWAIN, MARK
Humorist, novelist, travel writer, riverboat pilot, & publisher. 1870 married Olivia Langdon and moved to live in Hartford, Connecticut, where he wrote most of his books. In 1894 he was made bankrupt after bad investments. He went back to lecturing and re-made his fortune

TYNAN, KATHARINE
Poet & Novelist. Married barrister H A Hinkson in 1893 (d.1919). She disapproved of the Easter Rising and the Republican movement