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Sample of authors
Blackwood, Algernon
British writer Algernon Blackwood was born in the South East London district of Shooter’s Hill. In 1871 his family relocated to nearby Crayford. Both parents were stout Calvinists. In his teens, Blackwood broke away from their faith and embraced Buddhist teachings, thus forming a life-long penchant for oriental mysticism, occultism and theosophy. He studied at Wellington College in Berkshire a...
Literary figures
Bulldog (Hugh) Drummond [2]
Gender: Male
When Sapper (pseudonym for H.C. McNeile) died, his good friend Gerard Fairlie took over his hero Hugh ‘Bulldog’ Drummond and continued to write about him. But the Bulldog the readers meet in Fairlie’s books differs significantly from Sapper’s version. He is the same character, with the same background and social contacts, but is considerably more sympathetic since his strongly nationalist and raci...