Writers

Beverley Nichols Writer, broadcaster, and resident of Ashtead an...
E M Forster Novelist, critic and former resident of Weybrid...
Edward Carpenter English socialist poet, anthologist, early gay ...
John Evelyn John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist, scholar a...
Lewis Carroll Portrait of Lewis Carroll, alias R...
William Cobbett William Cobbett (1763-1835), was a prolific po...

Authors have made Surrey a landscape of fact, fiction and fantasy, from William Cobbett's accounts of his horseback rides through rural Surrey in the early 19th century to H.G. Well's Martians terrorising the world from their landing place on Horsell Common.

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