Author | Extract |
| Bottome Phyllis | Her writing career spanned nearly 60 years... |
| Chaucer Geoffrey | On the well-trodden pilgrim route from London to Canterbury, Rochester was a customary second night’s stop... |
| Dickens Charles | Septimus Crisparkle and his mother... |
| Garrick David | John Coulson... |
| Lyly John | John Lyly was a contemporary of Shakespeare and Marlowe... |
| Parker Richard | In ‘The Hendon Fungus’ (1967) a mysterious fungus collected abroad by a British scientist begins to spread through the south of England, attacking and destroying old buildings... |
| Pepys Samuel | In Rochester he tended to stay in either the Crown Hotel or the White Hart Inn, both of which still survive, although in altered form... |
| Shakespeare William | Rochester’s importance as a trading centre, its position on the river crossing and as a stage on the pilgrimage route meant that its inns were always busy... |
| Sutcliff Rosemary | These well-researched, highly acclaimed works such as ‘The Eagle of the Ninth’ (1954), ‘The Lantern Bearers’ (1959) and ‘Black Ships Before Troy’ (1993) used history as a medium for exciting narrative, intriguing character development and poetic imagery as well as an educational resource... |
| Thorndike Russell | The actor and author Russell Thorndike was born in Rochester... |
