Curated category
English satirists
- Charles DickensOn the 12th of May 1824, twelve-year-old Charles Dickens boarded a small boat to visit his father inside the Marshalsea debtors' prison in Southwark.
- Charlie ChaplinLondon, 1897. A seven-year-old boy named Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. sat at the Central London District School for paupers, his head cocked slightly to one…
- Sacha Baron CohenSacha Noam Baron Cohen entered the world on the 13th of October 1971 within the Hammersmith area of London. He was born into an English Ashkenazi Jewish…
- William HogarthWilliam Hogarth was born on the 10th of November 1697 at Bartholomew Close in London. His father Richard Hogarth taught Latin and wrote textbooks for a…
- Daniel DefoeDaniel Defoe was born in Fore Street, London, during the summer or early autumn of 1660. His family name was originally Foe, and he later added the…
- George CruikshankGeorge Cruikshank was born on the 27th of September 1792 in London. His father, Isaac Cruikshank, was an Edinburgh-born caricaturist who led the field during…
- Thomas NasheThomas Nashe entered the world on the 30th of November 1567 in Lowestoft, a coastal town in Suffolk. His father William served as curate there before the…