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Novelists, playwrights and poets

Many famous novelists, playwrights and poets, including Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Graham Greene lived in Hertfordshire or had associations with the county. Do you know any stories about famous or lesser-known Hertfordshire  authors?

  • 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 Day in the Life of a Hertfordshire Mercury Reporter c.1959
  • A father and son massacred in the New Hebrides
  • A Hard Life But a Happy One
  • A heroine who loved life (and more)
  • A Local Naval Hero
  • A SHOOTING IN WATTON - AT - STONE
  • A Short Personal Profile
  • A warning to Journalists who break the rules
  • Annie Swan, Suffragette
  • Audrey Collins OBE, Cricketer
  • Audrey Peattie, 1950's NHS Pathology Technician
  • August 1914: Watford businessman escapes Western Front by train
  • 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)
  • Henry Kingham, 1817-1882, Watford Grocer, Origins
  • 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!
  • Maternity ww2
  • 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
  • Researching Gorham Ancestry in England
  • 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 Edwardian Parachute Queen
  • The Mysterious Condition of Rev. Henry Etough
  • The Reverend Samuel Briercliffe in Africa
  • The Timmins Family of Aldenham
  • Thomas Kingham, 1854-1919, paternity of Whitehouse children, DNA
  • Ursula Bloom, Music Maker For Silent Films
  • Victoria Farmer, Aviator
  • Violet Olivia Cressy-Marcks 1895-1970
  • Wartime Nursing Memories
  • Yvonne Maslinksa, War Intelligence Worker
  • African & Caribbean people in Herts before 1830
  • Armed Forces
  • Artists and Illustrators
  • Businesses
  • Doctors and Nurses
  • Ebenezer Howard
  • Edward Lawrence - A Hertfordshire Man Remembers
  • Famous / Infamous
  • George Paul: A Life in Hertford
  • Gypsies, Travellers and Showmen
  • Hertfordshire Centenarians
  • John Gravestock
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer
  • Local Folk
  • My Story
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  • Novelists, playwrights and poets
  • Politicians
  • Radcliffe Family and Hitchin Priory
  • Royalty
  • Scientists and Inventors
  • Servants
  • Sportspeople
  • Ted Humphreys BEM
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