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117https://historysoa.com/items/show/117Austin, Alfred<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Austin%2C+Alfred+%281835%E2%80%931913%29">Austin, Alfred (1835–1913)</a>Alfred Austin (1835–1913); poet.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a>Austin-Alfred<a referrer="origin-when-cross-origin" href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/30503" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/30503</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Poet">Poet</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=84&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1889">1889</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1913">1913</a>Alfred Austin (1835–1913; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); poet. Joined the Society of Authors in 1889. Appointed Poet Laureate in 1896. Published over forty volumes of verse, poetical drama, novels and criticism.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1835">1835</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Council">Council</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=69&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1890">1890</a>Portrait of Alfred Austin. Albumen Print. c. 1894. NPG P1700(12c) © National Portrait Gallery, London. <a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw233732/Alfred-Austin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw233732/Alfred-Austin</a>.https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/117/1894-Austin-Alfred.jpgCouncil, drama, fiction, poetry
120https://historysoa.com/items/show/120Birrell, Augustine<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Birrell%2C+Augustine+%281850%E2%80%931933%29">Birrell, Augustine (1850–1933)</a>Augustine Birrell (1850–1933); politician and author.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a>Birrell-Augustine<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/31901" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/31901</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Author">Author</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Politician">Politician</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=84&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1889">1889</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1933">1933</a>Augustine Birrell (1850–1933; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); politician and author. Joined the Society of Authors in 1889. MP for West Fife and Bristol North; published political works and several volumes of essays.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1850">1850</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Council">Council</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=69&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1890">1890</a>Bassano, Alexander. Portrait of Augustine Birrell. Half-Plate Glass Negative. 1893. NPG x96419 © National Portrait Gallery, London. <a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw55115/Augustine-Birrell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw55115/Augustine-Birrell</a>.https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/120/1893-Birrell-Augustine.jpgCouncil, criticism, politics
141https://historysoa.com/items/show/141Jerome, Jerome Klapka<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=49&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Jerome%2C+Jerome+Klapka+%281859%E2%80%931927%29">Jerome, Jerome Klapka (1859–1927)</a>Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927); novelist and playwright.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=51&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Person">Person</a>Jerome-Jerome-Klapka<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34183" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/34183</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Author">Author</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=34&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Playwright">Playwright</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=79&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=M">M</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=84&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1889">1889</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=83&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1927">1927</a>Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927; <em>Oxford DNB</em>); novelist and playwright. Co-edited <em>The Idler</em>, publishing works by writers including Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Marie Corelli, <a href="https://historysoa.com/people/Doyle-Arthur-Conan">Arthur Conan Doyle</a>, Rudyard Kipling and <a href="https://historysoa.com/people/Jacobs-William-Wymark">W. W. Jacobs</a>. Founded the weekly <em>To-Day</em>. Also published several novels and an autobiography. Joined the Society of Authors in 1889.<a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=82&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=1859">1859</a><a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Council">Council</a>; <a href="/items/browse?advanced%5B0%5D%5Belement_id%5D=56&advanced%5B0%5D%5Btype%5D=is+exactly&advanced%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D=Dramatic+Sub-Committee">Dramatic Sub-Committee</a>Barraud, Herbert Rose. Portrait of Jerome Klapka Jerome. Carbon Print. Eglington &amp; Co., 1893. NPG Ax27638 © National Portrait Gallery, London. <a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw121499/Jerome-Klapka-Jerome" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw121499/Jerome-Klapka-Jerome</a>.https://historysoa.com/files/original/1/141/1893-Jerome-Jerome-Klapka.jpgCouncil, drama, editing, fiction, journalism, life writing