![]() ![]() Her name numbers among those floated to be the true author of Shakespeare’s plays. She was an author and translator, as the book notes, but more importantly, she was the first English woman recognized as a poet in her own right. The book reports that, "In the choir (Loren's note: not quire, as Salisbury Cathedral calls it) lies Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke" who died in 1621. There's an index of people mentioned in the book, but not of the cemeteries covered. ![]() As it is, I don't know my Avon from my Yorkshire West and there's no map in these pages to help me. ![]() I might like this book more if I had more familiarity with the nooks and crannies of the United Kingdom. The counties are broken into towns, then further minced into specific churches or graveyards. The book is organized into sections for England, London, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, then subdivided by county. Peter and Paul in Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, but without any description of the grave or where it lies or how it's marked, I'm not sure what good the listing does you. It continues to confide that he's buried in the churchyard of St. Roald Dahl is summed up as "the unrivaled master of the grotesque and ghoulish in children's fiction," without identifying him as the author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ![]() The famous include Lord Tweedmore, Dame Clara Butt, Sir Anthony Eden, among many more, whose names were unfamiliar even after I read about them.Įven when the names are familiar, the book offers very little information about them. While the title doesn't offer a clue, this is a book about the "famous" dead buried in the United Kingdom. ![]()
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