Thomas Hood

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Thomas Hood, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Born	May 23, 1799 • London • England
Died	May 3, 1845 (aged 45) • London • England • (Died on this day)

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Samuel Johnson

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Allan Cunningham

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St. John Henry Newman

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William Hazlitt

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Ted Hughes

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Enid Blyton

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Peter Ackroyd

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Sylvia Townsend Warner

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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Anne Ridler

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Philip Larkin

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Sir Edward Howard Marsh

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D.J. Enright

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Evelyn Underhill

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Sara Coleridge

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Sir J. C. Squire

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