Anniversaries, 14 March
Algernon Blackwood
The British author Algernon Henry Blackwood grew up in a strictly religious home in Kent. He soon abandoned his Christian faith for Buddhism, thereby laying the foundation for a life-long interest in Eastern mysticism, the occult and Theosophy. He spent a year between 1885 and 1886 with the Moravian Brethren in Germany, and after a failed business attempt he became a dairy farmer in Canada in 1890. Two years later he travelled to New York where he worked as a reporter for the New York Sun,...
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Haynes, Elizabeth
Elizabeth Haynes is a British author of crime fiction. She grew up in Seaford, Sussex and read English, German and Art History at the University of Leicester. She then worked in a number of different professions including car sales and the medical industry, and as an au pair in Berlin in 1989 before she was employed as a police intelligence analyst for Kent Police. She attended a creative...