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FAMILY HISTORY, TRACING
FANFROLICO PRESS
Founded by Jack Lindsay in 1927
FARJEON, ELEANOR
Children's writer & Poet. Jewish. Friend of Edward Thomas
(1878-1917). Had a liaison with the scholar George Earle for over 30
years although he was already married. Became a Catholic 1951
FAULKNER, WILLIAM HARRISON
Novelist whose work depicts the American south. Nobel Prize 1949. Died probably from years of smoking and drinking
FEARN, JOHN FRANCIS RUSSELL
Science Fiction Novelist & writer of Westerns (36 between 1947 &
1956). Married Carrie Worth in 1956. He died of a heart attack
FEMINISM, BOOKS ON
FENN, GEORGE MANVILLE
Novelist (over 100 works), esp of stories for boys. Married Susanna Leake in 1855. Friend of Henty
FERRARS, ELIZABETH X
Crime Novelist. Wrote over 40 psycholoogical thrillers. Married botanist professor Robert Brown in 1940
FIELDING, HENRY
Novelist & playwright. Lived a life of excess. Married the wealthy
Charlotte Cradock of Salisbury in 1734, and went through her money in 3
years. Plagued by gout and dropsy he went to Lisbon for his health but
died there after two months
FITZGERALD, EDWARD
Poet & Translator. Married Lucy Barton in 1856 (separated). He is buried at Boulge (Suffolk) churchyard
FITZGERALD, FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
Novelist. Married Zelda Sayre in 1920. He had a long affair with Sheila Graham. He died of a heart attack
FLEMING, IAN LANCASTER
Novelist. Brother of Peter Fleming. Attached to Naval Intelligence in
WW2. Married Anne Charteris (formerly Lady Rothermere) in 1952. Built
his own house 'Goldeneye' in Jamaica. Died following heart problems
FLETCHER, JOSEPH SMITH
Novelist of historical novels and then detective fiction. Poet &
historical writer about Yorkshire. Married Rosamond Langbridge
FOLIO SOCIETY
The Folio Society Ltd was founded in 1947 by Alan Bott, Charles Ede
& Christopher Sandford. It sold books by mail order, offering a gift
presentation volume as an inducement. It was based at 1-5 Poland
Street, Oxford Street, W1 in 1950
FOLK BALLADS
FOLK SONG STUDIES, ENGLISH
FOLKLORE & FOLKSONG
FOLKSONGS, ENGLISH
FORD, FORD MADOX
Novelist, poet, critic and editor. Changed his name in 1919. Founded and
edited the "London Review" and later, in Paris the "Transatlantic
Review". Married Elizabeth Martindale in 1894
FOREMAN, MICHAEL
Children's writer & illustrator
FORESTER, CECIL SCOTT
Novelist. Married Katherine Belcher in 1926, divorced 1944. He remarried
in 1947 (Dorothy Foster) and moved to Berkeley, California but was
confined to a wheelchair with arteriosclerosis
FORSTER, EDWARD MORGAN
Novelist. Refused a knighthood in 1946. Probably homosexual. Lived at Hackhurst, Abinger Hammer, Surrey from 1902-45
FOULIS, T N
Edinburgh publishing house founded in 1903 by Thomas and Douglas A
Foulis. By 1905 it had adopted the title of T N Foulis and was based at 3
Frederick Street. The firm slumped during WW1 and in 1924 was taken
over by G T Marshall (Henley printers). The new company was called G T
Foulis & Co
FRANCE, BOOKS ABOUT
FRANK, ANNE
Jewish diarist murdered by the Nazis in WW II. The Family hid away in
their house in Prinsengracht in Amsterdam for two years until they were
found and removed to concentration camps
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN
Statesman, Philosopher, Scientist, Man of Letters & Printer. Lived in London 1757-1762 & 1764 to 1775
FRASER, CLAUD LOVAT
Artist, Book Illustrator & Decorator, Theatre designer. Invalided out of the Army following being gassed at Loos, in WW1
FREEMAN, RICHARD AUSTIN
Novelist of scientific detective stories. Created the character of Dr
John Thorndyke. Married Annie Edwards in 1887. Held medical appointments
in West Africa before returning to England. Took up full-time writing
in 1905 when he had to retire from medicine through ill-health. A member
of the council of the Eugenics Society
FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION, BOOKS ABOUT THE
FROST, ROBERT LEE
Poet & author, especially of the New England rural scene. He married
his childhood sweetheart, Elinor White in 1895, but of their children -
one died young, one committed suicide and one ended up in an
institution. Frost moved to England in 1912 and stayed for 3 years.
FULLER, ROY BROADBENT
Poet, novelist, & critic. Married Kathleen Smith in 1936. Father of poet, John Fuller