Russell Hoban (1925-2011) was born in Pennsylvania in the US, and died in London after living there from 1969. He spent no time in Kent, apart from visiting it, in particular on one very important occasion (see below). But the way in which the landscape of the country figures in Read more…
Margate is the location of one of the briefest and most enigmatic of the memory traces left by literature and Kent. T S Eliot (1888-1965) although born in Missouri in the US, had arrived to live in the UK in 1914 via Paris and a spell at Harvard, when he Read more…
Through much of his life, the poet and critic Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) produced work which was informed, and often haunted, by the memory of his childhood in the village of Yalding, near Maidstone. This was despite the searing memory of the First World War, in which he fought and was Read more…
Daniel Defoe’s (1660-1731) links with Kent are not substantial, but they are interesting. The most important, the claim that `The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner’ was written in the west Kent village of Hartley, is almost certainly false. Even so, as an example of Read more…
Kerry Brown Kent is a county in the south east part of the United Kingdom, bordering London and Surrey in the East, between the Thames and the Estuary in the North, and the English Channel around its other coastal edges. It is 3736 square kilometres in size, with a population Read more…