Author Profiles
Jane Austen
Thursday, January 21st, 2010Jane Austen was an English novelist, whose works of romantic fiction set among the gentry, have earned her a place as one of the most widely read and most beloved writers in English literature. She was born in 1775, at the Rectory in Steventon, a little village in north-east Hampshire, on 16th December 1775. She [...]
Elizabeth Gaskell
Friday, October 30th, 2009She was born Elizabeth Cleghorn Stevenson in 1810, at 93, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London, which was then on the outskirts of London. Elizabeth was one of eight children, of whom only she and her brother John (born 1806) survived. She spent most of her early life cared for by an aunt, Mrs Hannah Lamb, in [...]
Tony Benn – a Lifetime Politican
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Tony Benn is the son, grandson and father of MPs and he retired from the House of Commons in May 2001, after fifty years in Parliament making him the longest serving Labour MP in the history of the Labour party having been first elected in 1950. Tony Benn is also known affectionately as “Wedgie” Benn, [...]