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Theodore
Watts-Dunton
By
Catherine Maxwell
The critic, novelist, and poet Walter Theodore Watts-Dunton (Watts until 1896, when he changed his name for legal reasons) was born on 12 October 1832 in St Ives, Huntingdon.
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Oscar
Wilde
By
Joseph Bristow
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854 to one of Ireland’s most distinguished professional, nationalist families of Protestant descent. His father was William Robert Wills Wilde (1815-1876), an eminent eye doctor, travel writer, and amateur ethnographer. He became Surgeon-Oculist-in-Ordinary to Queen Victoria in 1863 and was knighted a year later.
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Patten
Wilson
By
Geoffrey Beare
Patten Wilson was born on March 23, 1869, the son of a clergyman who ran a private school at Cleobury Mortimer in Shropshire. His talent as an artist seems to have come to him by inheritance from his father, “a schoolmaster, very facile with his pencil, deft in the use of tools” (Williamson 19).
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Alice
Woodward
By
Geoffrey Beare
Alice B Woodward was a British illustrator best known for The Peter Pan Picture Book (1907) the first illustrated version of the story of Peter Pan the boy who never grew up.
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