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Beatrice Kean Seymour at the Whitefriars Club

A new document has emerged showing that the prolific English novelist and short-story writer Beatrice Kean Seymour, born in Clapham into a working-class family, spoke at the Whitefriars’ 1930 Christmas Banquet at the Trocadero.

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A young American poet at the Whitefriars Club

In 1897, the twenty-five-year American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar travelled to England for a literary tour. He recited his works on the London circuit – and, what was not known before, visited the Whitefriars Club.

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