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You are here: Home>Herts history>People>Novelists, playwrights and poets

Novelists, playwrights and poets

Many famous novelists, playwrights and poets, including Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and Henry James lived in Hertfordshire or had associations with the county.

  • A King's Gratitude: The Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe
    A King's Gratitude: The Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe
    Sir Richard Fanshawe was born in 1608 at Ware Park. He was the youngest son of Sir Henry Fanshawe, an exchequer official.
  • Baron Michael Dobbs
    Baron Michael Dobbs
    Author of the House of Cards trilogy
  • Beatrix Potter in Hertfordshire
    Beatrix Potter in Hertfordshire
    Exhibition at Mill Green Museum, 24 July-31 October 2010
  • Charles Dickens (1812-70)
    Charles Dickens (1812-70)
    letters to Knebworth
  • Do you take sugar?
    Do you take sugar?
    William Cowper and the abolition of the slave trade
  • Geoffey Chaucer
    Geoffey Chaucer
    Possible connections with Berkhampsted
  • George Orwell Festival
    George Orwell Festival
    9th to 18th September 2011
  • Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1827)
    Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1827)
    of Brocket Hall
  • Letter from Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
    Letter from Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
    to Mrs Grenfell at Panshanger
  • St Albans Shakespeare: James Shirley
    St Albans Shakespeare: James Shirley
    In January 1621, a new headmaster arrived at St Albans School. This man was James Shirley. The boys at St ...
People
  • A father and son massacred in the New Hebrides
  • A Hard Life But a Happy One
  • A heroine who loved life (and more)
  • A SHOOTING IN WATTON - AT - STONE
  • A Short Personal Profile
  • Annie Swan, Suffragette
  • Audrey Collins OBE, Cricketer
  • Audrey Peattie, 1950's NHS Pathology Technician
  • Æthelflæd, Warrior Queen of the Mercians, 10th Century
  • Barbara Follett, Member of Parliament
  • Boudicca and her daughters, 30- 61 AD; the Terrorist – or freedom fighter?
  • Charles John Brewster Ray
  • Children of Hertfordshire
  • Christina of Markyate, Religious Visionary.
  • Cissi Pratt - Memories of St Ippolyts and Gosmore
  • Coleman connections
  • Cuffley Take Care
  • Dame Elizabeth Fuller, Education Pioneer.
  • Dame Ellen Terry, Actor
  • Dame Juliana Berners, Writer
  • Dame Margaret Tuke, Academic/Educator
  • Decorated Will
  • Delarivier Manley, Journalist
  • Denise Cook/Kelly
  • Dolly Shepherd, The Pioneering Edwardian Lady Parachutist
  • Dr Gladys Margaret Proudlock Dunbar
  • Dr Mary Groves Rowe MBE
  • Dr Miall-Smith, The Welwyn Garden City Doctor
  • E. Margaret Burnside, Midwifery Inspector
  • Elisabeth Hudson, Disability Campaigner
  • Elizabeth Baker, Playwright and Suffragette.
  • Elizabeth Impey, Suffragette
  • Emily Davies, Suffragette & Founder of Britain’s First Women’s College.
  • Family search
  • First Jump from Dreaded Balloon
  • George Eliot, Author
  • George Hill, last person executed in Hertford
  • Gwendoline Page – From Boreham Wood To Bletchley
  • Hatfield Mayor Lynne Sparks (2015-2016 Term)
  • Hertford County Constabulary
  • Herts Characters
  • Herts Hidden Heroines Project
  • Hilary Ratcliffe OBE, Gender Equality Campaigner
  • I was born at The Hoo on the Sixth of September, 1941!
  • In Black and White | Roger Britten |Royston's Printer (Part 1)
  • In Black and White | Roger Britten |Royston's Printer (Part 2)
  • Jane Hawking Jones, Educator & Author
  • Jane Wenham, The Accused Witch!
  • Judy Fryd CBE, Harpenden, campaigner & founder of Mencap.
  • Katherine Ferrers: The Wicked Lady - or was she?
  • Katherine Warington and Winifred Brenchley - Scientist
  • Kitty Hart-Moxon, Survivor
  • Lady Constance Lytton
  • Lady Constance Lytton, Suffragette
  • Lady Fanshawe - a Brave and Persistent Wife
  • Lavinia and William de Lautour
  • Lisa Buckingham OBE
  • Liz Hobbs MBE, Watersking Champion, Businesswoman
  • Looking for Katy Phillips
  • Looking for relatives of F/Lt Richard PICTON
  • Lorna Paulin, Hertfordshire County Librarian.
  • Louisa Puller, Suffragette
  • Lucy Shepherd, Explorer
  • Margaret & Annie Johnson - The First Hertfordshire Women Police Officers.
  • Margaret Murray, Egyptologist
  • Margaret Tyrwhitt Drake's Reference Book
  • Martine Wright, Paralympian & Campaigner
  • Mary Stout, Campaigner!
  • Mayor Lynne Sparks Speaks!
  • Micci Gorrod, Founder & Artistic Director of The Conscious Creative.
  • Mum's Story
  • Musical Memory Box
  • My early memories
  • My great-grandmother Annie Sears
  • P.C. Francis William Harmsworth ("Bill")
  • Peggy Hodges OBE, Aeronautical Engineer
  • Reba Younge, Educator, Anti-Racism Campaigner
  • Regina 4AD
  • ROBERT ORRIDGE BAXTER - EXECUTIONER
  • Ruth Osborne, The Accused Witch!
  • Syeda Momotaz Rahim, Community Activist
  • The Amazing Dolly Shepherd!
  • The ATA Girls (Air Transport Auxiliary) World War Two
  • The Reverend Samuel Briercliffe in Africa
  • The Timmins Family of Aldenham
  • Ursula Bloom, Music Maker For Silent Films
  • Victoria Farmer, Aviator
  • Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks 1895-1970
  • Wartime Nursing Memories
  • Yvonne Maslinksa, War Intelligence Worker
  • My Story
  • Ted Humphreys BEM
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  • Edward Lawrence - A Hertfordshire Man Remembers
  • Ebenezer Howard
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