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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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Oscar Wilde Visits the Club’s Rooms at Anderton’s

In July 1890, Oscar Wilde called at the Whitefriars Club’s rooms at Anderton’s Hotel and had a long talk about Dorian Gray with Friar Sidney Low, then editor of the St James’s Gazette.

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