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NABOKOV, VLADIMIR (VLADIMIROVICCH)
Novelist. Came to England during the Revolution, subsequently lived in
Germany & France. 1940 emigrated to USA. Lived in Montreaux,
Switzerland from 1959
NAPOLEONIC WARS
NASH, FREDERIC OGDEN
Humorous poet. Married Frances Rider Leonard 1931
NASH, PAUL
Artist. Elder brother of John Nash. Married Margaret Theodosia in 1914. Official war artist in WW1 & WW2
NESBIT, EDITH
Prolific Children's writer & Poet. Married Fabian Socialist, Hubert Bland (died 1914) in 1880 & Thomas Tucker in 1917.
NEW NATURALIST SERIES
Published by Collins from 1945
NEW YORKER, THE
Magazine first issued on 21st February, 1925. Founded and edited by
Harold Wallace Ross (b1892 in the Rockies, died 1951). He was succeeded
by William Shawn
NEWBERY, JOHN
Publisher & Bookseller. Began publishing in Reading (possibly with a
partner called Micklewright) in 1740 (where he owned the Reading
Mercury) and moved to London in 1744. The first publisher to produce
children's books. Branched out into newspapers, magazines & a
manufacturer of patent medicines. Published the periodical "The Public
Ledger".
NEWBERY AWARDS 1922-1998
Awarded each year by the American Library Association for distinguished children's books
NEWSPAPERS : REGIONAL
NEWSPAPERS, BOOKS ON
NEWTON, SIR ISAAC
Scientist & Mathematician who formulated the theory of gravity & invented calculus
NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE
Nurse and writer. Single. In 1853 Superintendent of a hospital for
invalid women in London. She volunteered for the Crimean War, taking 38
nurses to Scutari in 1854. By her mothods she drastically reduced the
mortality rate in the hospital. £5000 was raised for her to establish a
training hospital for nurses at St Thomas's & at King's College
Hospital
NISTER, ERNEST
Printer & Publisher based in Nuremberg. Set up a London office in1888 under the direction of the writer Robert Ellice Mack
NOBEL
, ALFRED BERNHARD
Industrialist who created a Dynamite empire (his fortune was estimated
at £2m on his death) and created the Nobel Prizes in 1901 (there are
five prizes in all - Literature, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine &
Peace). In 1998 each Prize was worth £600,000 (although they amount
varies from year to year)
NONESUCH PRESS, THE
Private Press set up in 1923 by Sir Francis Meynell. At Standard Road,
Park Royal Road, London NW10 in 1950. By 1994 it was part of Reinhardt
Books Ltd
NOYES, ALFRED
Poet who, unusually, managed to live by his poetry (only Tennyson had
achieved this previously). Married Garnet Daniels in 1907 (died 1926)
& Mary Wild-Blundell in 1927. Became a Catholic in 1927
NYE, ROBERT
Novelist, Poet & children's writer. Married artist and psychologist, Aileen Campbell, in 1968