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1881 - 1972
Daisy Ashford (Mrs George Norman) wrote The Young Visiters, a small comic masterpiece, while still a young child in Lewes. It was found in a drawer in 1919 and sent to Chatto and Windus, who published it in the same year with an introduction by J. M. Barrie, who had first insisted on meeting the author in order to check that she was genuine.
1852 - 1956
Alan Alexander Milne, educated at Westminster School and Trinity College Cambridge, became a prolific author of plays, novels, poetry, short stories, and essays, all of which have been overshadowed by his children's books.
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