Every night in the month of April we'll be jumping from one literary London plaque to another, connecting each plaque to another literary figure commemorated elsewhere in London with a nugget of literary trivia. Creative collaborations, romantic entanglements, feuds, places-in-common, the links will vary, but over the course of 30 days we'll have covered poets, biographers, novelists, humourists, critics, thriller writers and more until we have arrived full circle back at plaque number one!
If you can guess what our next plaque might be, feel free to leave a comment at the bottom of the post.
20. Isaac Rosenberg. Rosenberg was born in
Bristol to Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Latvia, he was reared in Whitechapel
and Steppe. He was killed in France on 1st April 1918. His plaque can be found
on the Whitechapel Art Gallery (formerly the Whitechapel Library), and his self
portrait can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery. Rosenberg studied at the
Slade School of Fine Art here in London, a school where…
We'll be back tomorrow night with our next
Plaque Tiddlywink. In the meantime, here's where to find tonight's plaque on the Whitechapel Gallery…
And here's the latest episode of the London Walks Podcast on Literary London…
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