Ward, Mary Augusta, 1851-1920, novelist, social worker
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Ward, Mary Augusta, 1851-1920, novelist, social worker
Wardle, Sarah, 1969-, poet and lecturer
Sarah Wardle was born in London in 1969. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies’ College; Oxford, where she read Classics; and Sussex, where she read English. She won Poetry Review’s new poet of the year award in 1999 and her first collection, Fields Away (Bloodaxe Books, 2003), was shortlisted for the Forward best first collection prize. Her second book, SCORE! (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), included some of the poems she broadcast while poet-in-residence for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, as well as the script of a film-poem, ‘X: A Poetry Political Broadcast’. A Knowable World (Bloodaxe Books, 2009) followed her detainment in a Central London psychiatric hospital, and a new collection, Beyond, is due from Bloodaxe in 2014. She is a lecturer in poetry at Middlesex University and Morley College, and a FRSA.
Waterhouse, Alfred, 1830-1905, architect
Cripps, John Stafford, 1912-1993, Journalist.
Webb, Martha Beatrice, 1858-1943, nee Potter, social reformer
Weiss, Frederick Ernest, 1865-1953, botanist
White, Robert, 1802-1874, Antiquary.
Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911, wood engraver, mountaineer