John Cowper Powys - High West Street, Dorchester, Dorset, UK
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N 50° 42.937 W 002° 26.089
30U E 539900 N 5618353
A large blue plaque to John Cowper Powys can be found in the main street in Dorchester.
Waymark Code: WM9T19
Location: South West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/27/2010
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The plaque reads:
'Following his return
from America
John Cowper Powys
(1872-1963)
Poet & Author
Lived here for a short time
in 1936 during which
he began his book
"Maiden Castle"
Dorchester Heritage Committee'
Wikipedia has a good article on this famous man, an extract of which is below:
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'Then in June 1934 John Cowper Powys and Phyllis Playter left America and moved to England, living first in Dorchester, the setting for the final Wessex novel, Maiden Castle, before eventually moving to Corwen, Wales, in July 1935, with the help of the novelist James Hanley, who lived nearby. Here Powys immersed himself in Welsh literature, mythology and culture, including learning to read Welsh. The move inspired two major novels with Welsh settings, Owen Glendower [1941] and Porius (1951). They later moved, in May 1955, to Blaenau Ffestiniog in North Wales. John Cowper Powys died in 1963 and Phyllis Playter in 1982.'