Wilfrid Voynich
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Wilfrid Voynich was a Polish revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile. Voynich operated one of the largest rare book businesses in the world. He is remembered as the eponym of the Voynich manuscript
Voynich c. 1920
Voynich in his Soho Square bookshop, c. 1899
Voynich c. 1923
Ethel Voynich
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Ethel Lilian Voynich was an Irish-born novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. She was born in Cork, but grew up in Lancashire, England.
Wilfrid Voynich
…in 1898. He was remarkably lucky in finding rare books, including a Malermi Bible in Italy in 1902. In 1902, he married a fellow former revolutionary, Ethel Lilian Boole, daughter of the British mathematician George Boole, with whom Voynich had been associated since 1890. Voynich was naturalised as a British subject on…
Portrait, 1902