Characters

Robert Louis Stevenson - BONUS

The Scottish novelist, essayist, and poet Robert Louis Stevenson is perhaps most famous for his ‘boys’ book’ Treasure Island. Stevenson’s...

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George Lusk was the Chairman of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee. His name was printed on the numerous posters pasted up around...

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In 1888, 6 women were brutally murdered in the Whitechapel, East of London. The murderer, who had never been identified, was known as...

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William Morris is a designer, author, writer and visionary socialist. He was defined by the end of the twentieth century as a...

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Christina Rossetti was born in London in December 1830. Two of her bothers were members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and as a young...

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Robert Anning Bell was a versatile decorative artist who worked as an illustrator between 1889 and 1912. By the 1890s he had become an...

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Luther Harris Evans is the tenth Librarian of Congress (1945-53) and the third director-general of the UNESCO. He is the one that brought...

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Lewis Carroll is the pseudonym of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, which he adopted when publishing his famous children’s novels...

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Alice Liddell, the prototype of the character Alice, was made famous by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) in Alice's Adventures in...

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