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City, formerly part of Warwickshire. Location map of Coventry courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), novelist known by her pseudonym George Eliot, went to school here. Later she lived for eight years (from 1841) at Bird Grove, Foleshill Road with her recently retired father.
Angela Brazil (1868-1947) was a celebrated writer of stories set in girls' boarding schools. She lived for the last 36 years of her life at 1 The Quadrant, Coventry. The building still exists and is used as offices by solicitors.
Susan Hill (1942- ), writer, journalist and novelist, was educated in the city and worked for five years, from 1963, for the Coventry Evening Telegraph as book-review editor.
Philip Larkin (1922-1985), one of the most highly regarded English poets of the latter part of the twentieth century, was born here. He attended the King Henry VIII Grammar School in the city for ten years before going on to Oxford University in 1940.
The novelist, biographer and poet, Philip Callow (1924-2007), spent most of his childhood in Coventry, after moving from Birmingham at a young age. He attended Broadway School and Coventry Technical College before taking a apprenticeship with Coventry Gauge and Tool Company. During the war he moved with his family to Leamington Spa.
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11 October 2007
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