John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL, 3 January 1892, was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of...

Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne-Cecil, CH, born 9 April 1902, was a British biographer, historian, and scholar. David Cecil was the...

George Platt Lynes, born April 15, 1907, was an American fashion and commercial photographer who worked in the 1930s and 1940s. He...

The Inklings were an informal literary discussion group associated with J. R. R. Tolkien at the University of Oxford for nearly two...

Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon née Losch, born November 15, 1903, known professionally as Tilly Losch, was an...

Maxine "Blossom" Miles, born 22 September 1901 as Maxine Forbes-Robertson, was a British aviation engineer, socialite, and businesswoman....

Anna May Wong, born Wong Liu Tsong; January 3, 1905, was an American actress, considered to be the first Chinese American Hollywood movie...

Bronislava Nijinska, born January 8, 1891, was a Polish ballet dancer, and an innovative choreographer. She came of age in a family of...

William Burges ARA, born 2 December 1827, was an English architect and designer. Among the greatest of the Victorian art-architects, he...

Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell, born 16 June 1873, was an English aristocrat and society hostess. Her patronage was influential in...

Dame Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE (née Hookham) born 18 May 1919, known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, was an English ballerina. She...

Annemarie Minna Renée Schwarzenbach, born 23 May 1908, was a Swiss writer, journalist and photographer. Her bisexual mother brought her...

Marianne Breslauer, born 20 November 1909, was a German photographer, photojournalist and pioneer of street photography during the Weimar...

(George) James Henry Lees-Milne, born 6 August 1908, was an English writer and expert on country houses, who worked for the National...

William Chappell, born 27 September 1907, was a British dancer, ballet designer and director. He is most noted for his designs for more...

Adele Astaire, born Adele Marie Austerlitz, later known as Lady Charles Cavendish; September 10, 1896, was an American dancer, stage...

In January's Livres du Mois I share with you The Contents of Wilsford Manor, a catalogue containing the sale of the contents of Stephen...

Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH, born 15 November 1897, was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic...

Lionel Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Baron de Rothschild, born February 1868, was a British banker, politician, zoologist and...

Sir Alan Charles Laurence Whistler CBE, born 21 January 1912, was a British poet, writer and artist, working in particular in glass...