Keith Thomas

Christine Stephanie Nicholls

A compilation of biographies of prominent British individuals who died between 1986 and 1990, detailing the lives and careers of those in medicine, sports, politics, entertainment, the arts, and writing. Many of the contributors are prominent persons in their own right, and many knew their subjects personally. Includes a cumulative index from 1901 through 1990. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

With an Index Covering the Years 1901-1990 in One Alphabetical Series

The Dictionary of National Biography, 1986-1990

Godfrey Hugh Lancelot Le May

H. G. Pitt

P. A. Slack

The original DNB was compiled between 1885 and 1900. Three supplementary volumes containing entrants who had missed their alphabetical sequence were published almost immediately. The Twentieth-Century Supplements are confined to those who have died within the decade or half-decade represented.There have been many men and women, however, who acquired posthumous fame, or whose achievements failed to come to the attention of the editors of the time, or whose significance scholarship has only recently revealed. This volume includes 1,086 such people from all periods of British history andfrom all walks of life. Including much biographical information not readily available elsewhere, this volume includes such famous names as Wilfred Owen, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sylvia Pankhurst, Guy Burgess, Thomas Traherne, J. C. Bach, Anna Pavlova, Sylvia Plath, Charles Laughton, and Stan Laurel. In addition to drawingon the fruits of recent scholarship, the Supplement also reflects changes in social outlook, witness the inclusion of proportionately nearly four times as many women here as in the original DNB.

Missing persons

The Dictionary of National Biography

This biographical dictionary contains 10,000 biographies supplemented with 2,000 quotations chosen to reveal what major figures thought about themselves and what others thought about them. It also contains 800 reading lists to guide readers through the biographies and memoirs.

The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Biography

The first biography of the renowned writer, broadcaster, conservationist and chronicler of colonial Kenya, whose lyrical and evocative memoir The Flame Trees of Thika (1959) achieved worldwide fame when made into a television drama series in 1981.

A Biography

Elspeth Huxley

A biography of the renowned writer, broadcaster, conservationist and chronicler of colonial Kenya, Elspeth Huxley, who achieved worldwide fame with her memoir The Flame Trees of Thika (1959). Elspeth married Gervas, a grandson of Thomas Huxley and cousin to Julian and Aldous Huxley, whom she knew well. The author, Christine Nicholls, had access to all her letters and papers, and is familiar with many of the people and places in the book.

Kenya's forgotten history from its inception to independence in 1963.

Christine Stephanie Nicholls

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