1852 1956 Alan Alexander Milne, educated at Westminster School and Trinity College Cambridge, became a prolific **** of plays, novels, poetry, short stories, and essays, all of which have been overshadowed by his children's books. 1881 1972 Daisy Ashford (Mrs George Norman) wrote The Young Visiters, a small comic masterpiece, while still a young child in Lewes. It was found in a drawer in 1919 and sent to Chatto and Windus, who published it in the same year with an introduction by J. M. Barrie, who had first insisted on meeting the **** in order to check that she was genuine.