Curated category
19th-century English male writers
- John KeatsJohn Keats was born in Moorgate, London, on the 31st of October 1795, into a world that would eventually crown him a master of English verse, yet his origins…
- Percy Bysshe ShelleyOn a summer day in 1804, Percy Bysshe Shelley stood before the wooden paling fence at Eton College. He held a bag of gunpowder he had stolen from the school…
- William WordsworthWilliam Wordsworth entered the world on the 7th of April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland. He was the second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann…
- Alfred, Lord TennysonAlfred Tennyson was born on the 6th of August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire. His father George Clayton Tennyson served as rector there from 1807 until his…
- Benjamin DisraeliBenjamin D'Israeli was born on the 21st of December 1804 at 6 King's Road, Bedford Row, Bloomsbury. His family carried a Sephardic Jewish mercantile…
- John SnowJohn Snow was born on the 15th of March 1813 in York, England. He grew up in a neighborhood that sat directly beside the River Ouse.
- John Russell, 1st Earl RussellJohn Russell entered the world on the 18th of August 1792 as the third son of John Russell, who would become the sixth Duke of Bedford.
- Robert BridgesRobert Bridges stood at the bedside of a patient in 1876. He wore the white coat of a full physician at the Great Northern Central Hospital.
- John LingardJohn Lingard entered the world on the 5th of February 1771 in St Thomas Street, central Winchester. His parents were recusant Catholics who had migrated from…
- Robert SoutheyRobert Southey was born on the 12th of August 1774 in Wine Street, Bristol. He grew up in a house that still stands today as a quiet reminder of his origins.