The historical novelist and poet Maurice Hewlett published a series of articles in the literary journal John O ' London's Weekly, in which he concluded: " And knowing children, and knowing that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has legs, I decide that the Miss Carpenters have pulled one of them.

Financial backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer.

* 1883 – Sir Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist ( d. 1972 )

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet ( 15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832 ) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world during his time.

* March 13 – Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist ( d. 1941 )

* August 15 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet ( d. 1832 )

* Walpole ( WL ) ( 51 girls, 1935 ) is named after the novelist Sir Hugh Walpole ( King's Scholar 1896 ).

In 1766, Sir Peter Beckford ( 1740 – 1811 ), a wealthy Englishman and cousin of the novelist William Thomas Beckford, twice Lord Mayor of London, visited Rome.

During the era of Romanticism, when knowledge of Celtic culture was overlaid by legends and fictions, the word was reintroduced into the West Germanic languages, this time directly into the English language, in the sense of ' lyric poet ', idealised by writers such as the Scottish romantic novelist Sir Walter Scott.

Other notable residents of Clapham Common were Palace of Westminster architect Sir Charles Barry, Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg and 20th century novelist Graham Greene.

* Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ) lawyer, novelist, poet

Sir H. Rider Haggard, novelist, was born in Bradenham, and later in his life spent his summers at Kessingland in a cliff-top house called the Grange ( now demolished, however a local road is named after Haggard ).

The novelist Sir H. Rider Haggard, author of King Solomon's Mines, lived in Ditchingham and was churchwarden there for several years.

Their house became a haven for all manner of visitors, mostly writers such as Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader Duke of Wellington and industrialist Josiah Wedgwood ; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit, too.

The other major novelist at the beginning of the early 19th century was Sir Walter Scott ( 1771-1832 ), who was not only a highly successful British novelist but " the greatest single influence on fiction in the 19th century ... a European figure ".

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson, KBE ( 11 August 191331 May 1991 ) was an English novelist and short story writer.

( Years later, in 1923, Sir Roderick Jones, head of Reuters, and his wife, playwright and novelist Enid Bagnold, were to add the adjacent Gothic House to the property and which became the inspiration and setting for her play The Chalk Garden ).

* February 14 – Sir P. G. Wodehouse ( born 1881 ), English comic novelist – creator of Jeeves and Wooster

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope ( 9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933 ), was an English novelist and playwright.

William Edward Norris ( 18 November 1847 – 1925 ), English novelist, was the son of Sir W Norris, chief justice of Ceylon.

The 1995 version was produced by Gramercy Pictures, in collaboration with BBC Films and Thames International, and was helmed by Academy Award-winning director John Schlesinger, from a script by novelist and scholar Sir Malcolm Bradbury.

The list of notable tourists included Sir George Grey in 1849, Alfred Duke of Edinburgh in 1869, and victorian novelist Anthony Trollope in 1874.

In the arts and culture, prominent figures were George Enescu ( music composer, violinist, professor of Sir Yehudi Menuhin ), Constantin Brâncuşi ( sculptor ), Eugène Ionesco ( playwright ), Mircea Eliade ( historian of religion and novelist ), Emil Cioran ( essayist, Prix de l ' Institut Francais for stylism ) and Angela Gheorghiu ( soprano ).

The novelist L. H.

* 1885 – D. H. Lawrence, English novelist ( d. 1930 )

Hoping to attract major press coverage, George Rappleyea went so far as to write to the British novelist H. G. Wells asking him to join the defense team.

** Eleanor H. Porter, American novelist ( b. 1868 )

** H. Rider Haggard, English novelist ( b. 1856 )

Twenty miles northwest is the D. H. Lawrence Ranch ( originally known as the Kiowa Ranch and now owned by the University of New Mexico ), the home of the English novelist in the 1920s.

The novelist L. H. Myers anonymously gave £ 300 to enable this and Orwell went with his wife to North Africa where he stayed, in French Morocco, mainly in Marrakesh, from September 1938 to March 1939.

At Christ's he tutored H. S. Hoff – later better known as the novelist William Cooper.

Aldington, by now a successful novelist, took up the suggestion and enlisted the help of Ford and H. D.

Also among the cadre of notable Carlinvillians, are several artists, academics, notably nature writer and novelist Mary Hunter Austin, once called " the most intelligent woman in America " by H. G.

Years after the success of his Cold War spy novels, novelist and Lincoln graduate John le Carré, himself a one-time spy, revealed that fictional spymaster George Smiley was partly modelled on former Lincoln rector Vivian H. H. Green.

French novelist Michel Houellebecq, in his book H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, describes " The Call of Cthulhu " as the first of Lovecraft's " great texts ".

* May 17-Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian

* May 21-Eleanor H. Porter, American novelist ( born 1868 )

* March 2-D. H. Lawrence, novelist and poet ( born 1885 )

* November 16-Robert H. Adleman, American novelist and historian

He finally brought in novelist H. E.

** H. C. McNeile (" Sapper "), " Bulldog Drummond " novelist

In Studies in Classic American Literature, the English novelist D. H. Lawrence wrote that Whitman " was the first to smash the old moral conception that the soul of man is something ' superior ' and ' above ' the flesh.

* October 17-C. H. B. Kitchin, British novelist ( died 1967 )

* September 11-D. H. Lawrence, novelist and short-story writer ( died 1930 )