"first schools, three middle schools and an upper school; the Thomas Hardye School was founded in 1569 by a merchant and in 2011 had 2,283 pupils on the role. The author Thomas Hardy was a school governor here from 1909 until shortly before his death. Nineteen schools in the Dorchester area form the Dorchester Area Schools Partnership (DASP). Kingston Maurward College is a land-based studies college on the outskirts of the town. It offers full-time and part-time courses, apprenticeships and university-level courses in a wide range of subjects including agriculture, horticulture, conservation, construction, countryside and wildlife management. The town's hospital"
"of Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Hampshire and much of Berkshire, in southwest and south central England. Two of his novels, ""Tess of the d'Urbervilles"" and ""Far from the Madding Crowd"", were listed in the top 50 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. Thomas Hardy was born on 2 June 1840 in Higher Bockhampton (then Upper Bockhampton), a hamlet in the parish of Stinsford to the east of Dorchester in Dorset, England, where his father Thomas (1811–1892) worked as a stonemason and local builder, and married his mother Jemima (née Hand; 1813–1904) in Beaminster, towards the end of 1839. Jemima"
"National Trust. The visitor centre opened in September 2014. Thomas Hardy's Cottage Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" (1872) and ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874)—when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford. The cottage was built by Hardy's great-grandfather in 1800. It is now a National Trust property, and a popular tourist attraction."
"to get closer to her bones. Dorset is famed in English literature for being the native county of novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), and many of the places he describes in his novels in the fictional Wessex are in Dorset, which he renamed ""South Wessex"". The National Trust owns Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in woodland east of Dorchester, and Max Gate, his former house in Dorchester, Dorset. Several other writers have been influenced by the Dorset landscape, including P. D. James whose novel ""The Black Tower"" was inspired by Clavell Tower in Kimmeridge; and Enid Blyton who spent many holidays"
"as a popular author was recognised in an obituary to him in The Times on 31 December 1949. Currently, his fiction has a specialist following in those interested in Edwardian popular novels. A major study referencing Horace Newte's extensive authorial portfolio, his and his wife's ancestral connections to notable historical characters, and their connections to places in London and Essex, was completed by Imogen P. Gray and published in 2017. Horace Newte Horace Wykeham Can Newte, English playwright, novelist and columnist, was born at Melksham, Wiltshire in 1870. The Newte family, with somewhat of a roaming history, returned to London"
"Thomas Hardy's Cottage Thomas Hardy's Cottage, in Higher Bockhampton, Dorset, is a small cob and thatch building that is the birthplace of the English author Thomas Hardy. He was born there in 1840 and lived in the cottage until he was aged 34—during which time he wrote the novels ""Under the Greenwood Tree"" (1872) and ""Far from the Madding Crowd"" (1874)—when he left home to be married to Emma Gifford. The cottage was built by Hardy's great-grandfather in 1800. It is now a National Trust property, and a popular tourist attraction. The property has a typical cottage garden, and the"
"Norman Hunter (author) Norman George Lorimer Hunter (23 November 1899 – 23 February 1995) was a British children's author, creator of Professor Branestawm. Hunter was born in Sydenham, England, on 23 November 1899. He attended Beckenham County School for Boys (later known as Beckenham and Penge Grammar School and then Langley Park School for Boys). He left school to volunteer for service during World War I in the London Irish Rifles. Hunter wrote popular books on writing for advertising, brain-teasers and conjuring among many others. His career started as an advertising copywriter and in the 1930s he was performing as"
"Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (; 24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist; his work, mostly in the fantasy genre, was published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than ninety books of his work were published in his lifetime, and both original work and compilations have continued to appear. Dunsany's œuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as plays, novels and essays. He achieved great fame and success with his early short stories and plays, and during the 1910s was considered"
"poet, was born and lived in Berkhamsted. He was later institutionalised in an asylum in St Albans. Charles Dickens (1812–1870) was often in Hertfordshire (not least to visit his friend Edward Bulwer Lytton, who is mentioned below), and significant elements of his novels are set there. Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666) was born at Ware Park and his memorial tablet is in Ware. E. M. Forster (1879-?) lived at Rook's Nest House between Stevenage and Weston. William Godwin (1756–1836), an anarchist philosopher, was a Chapel Minister in Ware; his feminist wife Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), author of A Vindication of the Rights"
"George Birkbeck Norman Hill George Birkbeck Norman Hill (7 June 1835 – 24 February 1903) was an English editor and author. He was the son of Arthur Hill, headmaster of Bruce Castle School, and was born at Bruce Castle, Tottenham, Middlesex. He dropped his third name, Norman, publishing as just George Birkbeck Hill; to family and friends he was known as Birkbeck, not as George. His mother died when he was four years old; on her father's side, she was related to Frederick Denison Maurice. Arthur Hill, with his brothers Rowland Hill, the postal reformer and Matthew Davenport Hill, afterwards"
"in 1970, he once again returned to London, where Thames Television had just produced the ""Professor Branestawm"" eight-part TV series. He continued writing in his retirement, with his last book published in 1983. (Incomplete): Norman Hunter (author) Norman George Lorimer Hunter (23 November 1899 – 23 February 1995) was a British children's author, creator of Professor Branestawm. Hunter was born in Sydenham, England, on 23 November 1899. He attended Beckenham County School for Boys (later known as Beckenham and Penge Grammar School and then Langley Park School for Boys). He left school to volunteer for service during World War I"
"(1905), and the ""Letters"" edited by his younger daughter, Lucy Crump, in 1903. George Birkbeck Norman Hill George Birkbeck Norman Hill (7 June 1835 – 24 February 1903) was an English editor and author. He was the son of Arthur Hill, headmaster of Bruce Castle School, and was born at Bruce Castle, Tottenham, Middlesex. He dropped his third name, Norman, publishing as just George Birkbeck Hill; to family and friends he was known as Birkbeck, not as George. His mother died when he was four years old; on her father's side, she was related to Frederick Denison Maurice. Arthur Hill,"
"Leicester Silk Buckingham Leicester Silk Buckingham (29 June 1825 – 15 July 1867) was an English dramatist, who achieved considerable popularity as a playwright, several of his free adaptations of French comedies being produced in London between 1860 and 1867. Buckingham, the youngest son of James Silk Buckingham, the oriental traveller, and Elizabeth Jennings, was born at 11 Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, London, 29 June 1825. In his early life he was the companion of his father in visits made to America, France, and the East, and the experience thus acquired rendered his services valuable as a lecturer on several"
"Henry Cockton Henry Cockton (7 December 1807 – 26 June 1853) was an English novelist, remembered primarily for ""The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist"" (1839–40). Henry Cockton was born in George Yard, Shoreditch, London, the third of eight children of William and Mary Cockton. His father may have been a weaver. Nothing is known about his childhood or education; all that can be ascertained about his early life is that he spent some years employed in a house of business in Bury St. Edmunds in Suffolk. Here, on 9 May 1837, he married Ann Howes in St."
"P. G. Wodehouse Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (; 15 October 188114 February 1975) was an English author and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century. Born in Guildford, the third son of a British magistrate based in Hong Kong, Wodehouse spent happy teenage years at Dulwich College, to which he remained devoted all his life. After leaving school, he was employed by a bank but disliked the work and turned to writing in his spare time. His early novels were mostly school stories, but he later switched to comic fiction, creating several regular characters who became"
"When Henrietta Batson died at Swyre in Dorset in 1943, probate was granted to Hodgson. Henrietta Batson Henrietta Mary Batson ""née"" Blackman (1859–1943) was an English writer whose interest in the countryside and rural people was an important theme in her novels and much of her non-fiction. She often published as Mrs. Stephen Batson, or sometimes as H.M. Batson. Born in Hamilton, Ontario to the Rev. Thomas John Mark Willoughby Blackman and Ann Blackman ""née"" Gunn in 1859, Batson was living in England by 1871. She stayed there for the rest of her life, and her writing is rooted in"
"best-loved works are set in the imaginary west country county of Barsetshire, including ""The Warden"" (1855) and ""Barchester Towers"" (1857). Trollope's novels portray the lives of the landowning and professional classes of early Victorian England. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans (1819–80) was a major novelist of the mid-Victorian period. Her works, especially ""Middlemarch"" 1871-2), are important examples of literary realism, and are admired for their combination of high Victorian literary detail, with an intellectual breadth that removes them from the narrow geographic confines they often depict, that has led to comparisons with Tolstoy. George Meredith (1828–1909) is best remembered for"
"in 1886. Pollard-Urquhart was the author of: William Pollard-Urquhart William Pollard-Urquhart (19 June 1815 – 1 June 1871), was a 19th-century writer specialising in economic and policy questions of his day; he served as high sheriff of County Westmeath, and sat as Member of Parliament for the county. Urquhart, eldest child of William Dutton Pollard (1789–1839), of Kinturk, Castlepollard, co. Westmeath, by his second wife, Louisa Anne, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir Thomas Pakenham, was born at Kinturk on 19 June 1815. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating BA as eighteenth wrangler in 1838, and"
"was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, his father was from Dorset and the family moved to Dorchester, Dorset in 1880. The family then moved just across the Somerset border to Montacute in 1885, but Powys maintained a connection with Dorset because he attended Sherborne School, Sherborne, Dorset. Several of his novels, including ""Ducdame"" (1925), ""Wolf Solent"" (1929), ""Weymouth Sands"" (1934) and ""Maiden Castle"" (1936) are set in Dorset, while Powys's first novel ""Wood and Stone"" is dedicated to Thomas Hardy. ""Maiden Castle"", which is set in Dorchester, was begun in 1934 after Powys's return from America. He initially lived in Dorset,"
"in Dorset, eventually moving to the Isle of Purbeck with her second husband. Many locations in her books were drawn from this area including Kirrin Castle (Corfe Castle) and Whispering Island (Brownsea). Studland was the inspiration for Noddy's Toyland and P.C. Plod is thought to have been based on the then local policeman, Christopher Rone. William Barnes was born in the Blackmore Vale in 1801 and three volumes of his poetry in the Dorset dialect were published, the first, ""Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect"" was published in 1844. Barnes hated what he deemed 'foreign' words and avoided"
"Lloyd Alexander Lloyd Chudley Alexander (January 30, 1924 – May 17, 2007) was an American author of more than forty books, primarily fantasy novels for children and young adults. His most famous work is ""The Chronicles of Prydain"", a series of five high fantasy novels whose conclusion, ""The High King"", was awarded the 1969 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature. He won U.S. National Book Awards in 1971 and 1982. Alexander was one creator of the children's literary magazine ""Cricket"". Alexander was born in Philadelphia in 1924 and grew up in Drexel Hill, a section of Upper Darby"
"Angels family vault in Haworth. Notes Footnotes Bibliography Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ""Wuthering Heights"", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern"
"Emily Brontë Emily Jane Brontë (, ; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, ""Wuthering Heights"", now considered a classic of English literature. Emily was the third-eldest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell. Emily Brontë was born on 30 July 1818 in Market Street in the village of Thornton on the outskirts of Bradford, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Northern England, to Maria Branwell and an Irish father,"
"Nuneaton Nuneaton () is a town in northern Warwickshire, England. The population in 2011 was 86,552, making it the largest town in Warwickshire. The author George Eliot was born on a farm on the Arbury Estate just outside Nuneaton in 1819 and lived in the town for much of her early life. Her novel ""Scenes of Clerical Life"" (1858) depicts Nuneaton. The Nuneaton built-up area, incorporating Nuneaton and the surrounding urban settlements, including the large villages of Hartshill and Bulkington, had a population of 92,968 at the 2011 census. Nuneaton is north of Coventry, east of Birmingham and northwest of"
"Charles Hackett and Harry Anthony. She died on 9 September 1924 in Marylebone, London. Emily Henrietta Hickey Emily Henrietta Hickey (1845–1924) was an Irish author, narrative poet and translator. She was born in Macmine Castle, near Enniscorthy in County Wexford, daughter of the Rev. J. S. Hickey, Protestant rector of Goresbridge and granddaughter of Rev. William Hickey (""Martin Doyle""), an agriculturist. She studied at Cambridge and then became lecturer in English language and literature at University College London. She sold her first poem, ""Told in the Twilight"" to the ""Cornhill Magazine"" in 1866 and afterwards contributed to ""Longman's Magazine"", ""Good"
"Mrs. Henry Clarke Amy Clarke (pen name, Mrs. Henry Clarke; 17 April 1853 – 4 March 1908), was an English writer of historical fiction and children's books. The daughter of Joseph Henry Key and Elizabeth Hosking, Clarke was born Amy Key in Plymouth in 1853. She started writing when young, publishing a story in the magazine ""Good Words"" when she was 16. At 20, she obtained a first in the Cambridge Examination and began teaching at Plymouth High School for Girls. Two years later she took one year's leave to read mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She left Plymouth High"
"referred to as Bromstead). Owen Chadwick was born in Bromley in 1916. He was awarded the Order of Merit, was Vice Chancellor of University of Cambridge, Master of Selwyn Cambridge, Regius Professor of Modern History, Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Chancellor of University of Anglia, President of the British Academy, and was a Rugby Union International. Other world-famous authors who hail from Bromley include Captain W.E. Johns (author of the Biggles adventures), David Nobbs (author of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and writer for Les Dawson and The Two Ronnies), and Enid Blyton who wrote influential children's fiction"
"Allan Monkhouse Allan Noble Monkhouse (7 May 1858 – 10 January 1936) was an English playwright, critic, essayist and novelist. He was born in Barnard Castle, County Durham. He worked in the cotton trade, in Manchester, and settled in Disley, Cheshire. From 1902 to 1932 he worked on ""The Manchester Guardian"", writing also for the ""New Statesman"". As second in command at the ""Guardian"", Monkhouse helped to launch the career of James Agate by publishing his open letters from France during the First World War. Agate appears in Monkhouse's play ""Nothing Like Leather"" barely disguised as the theatre critic ""Topaz""."
"W. Somerset Maugham William Somerset Maugham, CH ( ; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was a British playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest-paid author during the 1930s. After both his parents died before he was 10, Maugham was raised by a paternal uncle who was emotionally cold. Not wanting to become a lawyer like other men in his family, Maugham eventually trained and qualified as a physician. The initial run of his first novel, ""Liza of Lambeth"" (1897),"
"Richard Barham Richard Harris Barham (6 December 1788 – 17 June 1845) was an English cleric of the Church of England, a novelist and a humorous poet. He was known generally by his pseudonym Thomas Ingoldsby and as the author of ""The Ingoldsby Legends"". Richard Harris Barham was born in Canterbury. When he was seven years old his father died, leaving him a small estate, part of which was the manor of Tappington, in Denton, Kent, mentioned so frequently in his later publication ""The Ingoldsby Legends"". At the age of nine he was sent to St Paul's School, but his"
"his poems and letters. In the Victorian era, Cowper became a cult figure and Berkhamsted was a place of pilgrimage for his devotees. Maria Edgeworth, a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature who was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe, lived in Berkhamsted as a child in the 18th century. Between 1904 and 1907, the Llewelyn Davies boys were the inspiration for the author and playwright J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. A little later, novelist Graham Greene was born in Berkhamsted and educated at Berkhamsted School, alongside literary contemporaries Claud Cockburn, Peter Quennell,"
"the actual number of cottages at any one time. Jane Austen, whose godfather and cousin Rev. Samuel Cooke was vicar of Great Bookham (1769-1820), is said to have spent time in Bookham whilst writing several of her novels in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Its location is consistent with the geographical details in ""Emma"". C. S. Lewis studied privately with William T. Kirkpatrick in Great Bookham between September 1914 and April 1917. Pink Floyd bass player and singer, Roger Waters, was born in Great Bookham in 1943. A regency villa on the southern edge of the village, Polesden"
"George Tomkyns Chesney Sir George Tomkyns Chesney (30 April 1830 – 31 March 1895), was a British Army general, politician, and writer of fiction. He is remembered as the author of the novella ""The Battle of Dorking"" (1871), a founding work in the genre of invasion literature. George Tomkyns Chesney was born on 30 April 1830 in Tiverton, Devon, one of six children of Sophia Augusta (Cauty) Chesney and Charles Cornwallis Chesney. His brother, Colonel Charles Cornwallis Chesney, achieved prominence as a soldier and military writer; and his sister Matilda Marian Pullan, as a writer on needlework. He was educated"