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Yates, Dornford

Dornford Yates is the pen-name of Cecil William Mercer, the son of a solicitor, who was born in Walmer, Kent, in 1885. He was educated at Harrow and Oxford, where he became President of the Oxford University Dramatic Society. He then qualified as a ...

Yeats, William Butler

William Butler Yeats is one of the greatest English language poets, a status confirmed by the award of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the founder of the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre. At various times revolutionary patriot,...

Yeoman, John

John Yeoman read English at Downing College, Cambridge, and Education at London University. Much of his teaching career was spent at the French Lycee in South Kensington, where he was for many years head of English. His first children's book, publish...

Young, Louisa

Louisa Young was born in London and educated at a state school, a girls’ public school, a boys’ public school, and Trinity College, Cambridge. She has been a freelance journalist writing in women’s magazines, motorcycle magazines and national newspa...

Young, Toby

Toby Young was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, and at Harvard and Trinity College, Cambridge. A journalist and writer, in 1991 he founded and edited the Modern Review with Julie Burchill and her then husband Cosmo Landesman. In 1995 he moved t...