Articles with the tag: Writers


Rosa Harriet Newmarch 1857-1940

Rosa Harriet Newmarch 1857-1940

Rosa Newmarch was born at 29 Lansdowne Place*, Leamington, the youngest of the family of four boys and three girls of the physician Samuel Jeaffreson. She was an artist, an accomplished musician, linguist, poet, writer, critic and composer, – and a wife and...
Mary Dormer Harris, 1867 – 1936

Mary Dormer Harris, 1867 – 1936

Mary Dormer Harris was a remarkable woman.  Multi-talented, hard-working, an enthusiastic party-giver with a great zest for life, she had a wide circle of friends young and old. She wrote and published books and plays, lectured in local history at the University...
Beatrice Whitby, Novelist, 1855-1931

Beatrice Whitby, Novelist, 1855-1931

Beatrice Janie Whitby was born in Ottery Saint Mary, Devon where her father Charles was in medical practice. The family numbered three daughters and five sons, the oldest of whom, a professional soldier, was killed in the Afghan war of 1880, almost at the same time as...
John Ruskin (1819 to 1900)

John Ruskin (1819 to 1900)

  Was the remarkable life of this man saved by the mineral waters of Leamington Spa at the age of 21? John Ruskin was a writer, artist, art critic and polymath who was precocious at all stages of his life. He championed J M W Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites, Gothic...
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. In July 1853 he was appointed US consul in Liverpool by President Franklin Pierce, and during the ensuing 5½ years in England spent 2 periods in Leamington, in 1855 and 1857. At the end of his term...