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.