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PAPE, FRANK CHEYNE
Prolific Book illustrator. Married Agnes Stringer
PARKER, ERIC FREDERICK MOORE SEARLE
Novelist & writer of books about dogs, shooting, fishing & cricket. Illustrator. Married Ruth Messel in 1902.
PATMORE, COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON
Poet & Essayist. Married Emily Augusta Andrews in 1847 (she died
1862). Became a Catholic in 1864. In same year married Marianne Caroline
Byles (d. 1880). Married for third time in 1881 to Harriet Robson. He
died of angina
PEAKE, MERVYN LAWRENCE
Novelist & Illustrator. Parents medical missionaries. In 1933 he
moved live to Sark, where he lived in a colony of artists for 2 years.
Married Maeve Gilmore 1937. Suffered a nervous breakdown during wartime
military service. Died after a long illness (Parkinson's Disease)
PELICAN BOOKS
Non-fiction books issued by Penguin Books from May 1937. By 1938 each new volume was issued in a print run of 50.000 +
PENGUIN BOOKS : HISTORY
Publishers founded in 1935 by Allen Lane in the crypt of Holy Trinity
Church, Euston Rd. Near the end of 1937 they moved to new premises at
Harmondsworth, Middlesex. became a public company in 1956. In 1997 at 27
Wrights Lane, London W8 5TZ. Owned in 1997 by Pearson Media Group
PENGUIN BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND
PENGUIN CLASSICS, IN PRINT 1994
PENGUIN SPECIALS
PERRAULT, CHARLES
Author, Poet & Folklorist. Maybe assisted by his son Pierre (1678-1700)
PETERS, ELLIS
Historical novelist. Creator of Brother Cadfael. Single. Pacifist. Spoke & Translated Czech
PHILLPOTTS, EDEN
Novelist (much of his work was based around Dartmoor), Playwright &
Poet. Published over 250 books. Married Emily Topham in 1892 & Lucy
Webb in 1929
PHIZ
Watercolourist & Illustrator, especially of Charles Dickens novels
(after death of Robert Seymour). Married Miss Reynolds in 1840. An
illness (probably polio) in 1867 left him partially blind and paralysed.
PICASSO, PABLO RUIZ Y
Artist. Settled in Paris 1901. 1907 developed Cubism with Braque. Designed ballets for Diaghilev 1917
PINNOCK, WILLIAM
Hampshire schoomaster who became a London bookseller. He wrote elementary textbooks for children.
PINTER, HAROLD
Playwright of Jewish parents. Married Vivienne Merchant (divorced) and Antonia Fraser in 1980
PIPER, JOHN EGERTON
Writer & Artist. Married Eileen Holding & in Myfanwy Evans (who in 1937 became his second wife)
PLAIDY, JEAN
Historical novelist. Married G P Hibbert. It is said she used 17 or more pseudonyms.
POE, EDGAR ALLAN
Poet & Story Writer. Married his cousin Virginia Clemm in 1836 (she
was 13 at the time). They lived in poverty in New York and Virginia died
in 1837. Creator of Le Chevalier C Auguste Dupin. Died of
alcohol-related disease, or possibly rabies
POGANY, WILLY
Illustrator. Lived in London 1906-1914 and then went to USA where the
quality of his work declined. Worked as a set designer on several
classic films, incl Boris Karloff's "The Mummy"
POLITICAL CARTOONS
POPE, ALEXANDER
Poet & Satirist. Lame from birth. Roman Catholic (this prevented
education at any high level and thus he was largely self-educated) &
Tory. Translating Homer and Editing editions of Shakespeare gave him a
very modest income. Settled in Twickenham in 1718
POPES OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
POTTER, (HELEN) BEATRIX
Children's writer. C of E. Engaged to Norman Warne (son of the
publisher) but he died. She spent more time in the Lake District and
married solicitor, William Heelis in 1913. Her books made the publishers
Warne very wealthy and successful. After 1913 she wrote less, turning
her time to breeding sheep and farming. Over 4000 acres were bequeathed
to the National Trust. The Beatrix Potter Gallery at Hawkshead displays
many of her original illustrations
POUND, EZRA WESTON LOOMIS
Imagist Poet & Writer. Married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. Noted for
his translations of Provencal, Latin, Chinese, French & Italian
poets. Supported Franco in Spanish Civil War. Lived in London 1908-20,
Paris 1920-4 & Rapallo, Italy 1924-45. From 1946 to 1958 he was held
on a treason charge in a mental asylum near Washington DC, for making
radio broadcasts supporting Mussolini during the war. Founder, with
Wyndham Lewis, of "Blast" in 1914
POVERTY & WEALTH
POWYS, JOHN COWPER
Writer & Novelist. Brother of Llewellyn & TF. Lectured widely in the United States 1904-34
PRESIDENTS OF THE USA
PRIESTLEY, JOHN BOYNTON
Prolific Critic, Essayist, Broadcaster, Novelist and Playwright. Married Jacquetta Hawkes
PRIME MINISTERS (BRITISH) SINCE 1721
PRITCHETT, SIR VICTOR SAWDON
Novelist, Critic & Biographer
PUBLIC SCHOOLS, BOOKS ABOUT ENGLISH ... CHRONOLOGICAL
PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH
Wrote in many forms - lyrical poetry, narrative verse, daram,
folk-tales, and short stories. He was exiled to the Caucasus. Married
Natalya Gonacharova 1831. Killed by a Frenchman, Baron Georges d'Antes
in a duel defending his wife's honour