William Ernest Henley
British poet, critic and editor
Died when: 53 years 322 days (646 months)Star Sign: Virgo
William Ernest Henley (23 August 1849 – 11 July 1903) was an English poet, writer, critic and editor. 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 might have been the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Long John Silver (Treasure Island, 1883), while his young daughter Margaret Henley inspired J.
M. Barrie's choice of the name Wendy for the heroine of his play Peter Pan (1904).
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