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​The poet Laureate Robert Southey was born On This Day 12 August 1774

12/8/2021

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He was the nephew of Rev. Herbert Hill, rector of Streatham He is the author of Goldilocks and the Three bears which when in Streatham he would read as a bed-time story to his Uncle's children

(The family in Streatham were also visited by another literary great Jane Austin who made several visits to Streatham to see her friend, Catherine Bigg-Wither, the wife of the then Rector of Streatham (St Leonard's), the Rev’d Herbert Hill)
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(Goldilocks and the Three Bears-llustration by Arthur Rackham, 1918,
Robert Southey (1774–1843), Aged 31 by John Opie)
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