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William Ernest Henley
(1849-1903)
English poet, critic and editor
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William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an English poet, writer, critic and editor in late Victorian England. Though he wrote several books of poetry, Henley is remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus". A fixture in London literary circles, the one-legged Henley was also the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Long John Silver (Treasure Island, 1883), while his young daughter Margaret inspired J. M. Barrie's choice of the name Wendy for the heroine of his play Peter Pan (1904).

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Born
23 August 1849
Gloucester, England
Died
11 July 1903 (aged 53)
Woking, England
Zodiac Leo
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