Lewis Carroll Biography
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson : Pen Name Lewis Carroll Born 27th January 1832, Daresbury, Cheshire, England. Died (age 65) 14th January 1898, Guildford, Surrey, England. Lewis Carroll was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its sequel “Through the Looking-Glass” (includes the poem “Jabberwocky“), […]
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Jane Austen Biography
Jane Austen English novelist born 16th December 1775, died 18th July 1817. Known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Jane Austen’s plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage in the pursuit of favourable social standing and […]
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Adelaide Anne Procter Biography
Adelaide Anne Procter (born 30th October 1825 – died 2nd February 1864) was an English poet, feminist, and philanthropist. Procter never married, she worked tirelessly on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She died of tuberculosis at the age of 38. Procter’s literary career started […]
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Christopher Marlowe Biography
Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593), Born the same year as Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe was to become the first great poet of the theatre’s second great age. His life, much like the lives of his characters, would be short and violent. Christopher Marlowe Works The First Book of Lucan (1582) Ovid’s Amores (1582 – 1st Published 1600?) The […]
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John Webster Biography
John Webster (1580 – 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist best known for his tragedies The White Devil and The Duchess of Malfi, which are considered by many as masterpieces of the early 17th-century English stage and a worthy addition to the Classic Literature Library. His life and career overlapped William Shakespeare’s. Webster’s life is […]
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Thomas Kyd Biography
Thomas Kyd Biography KYD, THOMAS (1558-1595), Born in London in 1558, the son of Francis Kyd, a scrivener. He was educated at the Merchant Tailors’ School, of which Richard Mulcaster, was headmaster. Probably he followed his father’s calling for a while, but little or nothing more is known of him until he reached his thirties. […]
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Richard Carew Biography
CAREW, RICHARD (1555-1620), English poet and antiquary, was born on the 17th of July 1555, at Antony House, East Antony, Cornwall. At the age of eleven, he entered Christ Church, Oxford, and when only fourteen was chosen to carry on an extempore debate with Sir Philip Sidney, in presence of the earls of Leicester and […]
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Francis Bacon Biography
Francis Bacon Biography Bacon, Francis (philosopher) (1561-1626). English philosopher and statesman. One of the pioneers of modern scientific thought. Francis Bacon’s Life Bacon was born on January 22, 1561, at York House, in the Strand, London, and educated at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Elected to the House of Commons in 1584, he served until […]
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Lewis Carroll – Three Sunsets and Other Poems
Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) With Twelve Fairy-Fancies By E. Gertrude Thomson Three Sunsets and Other Poems Preface Nearly the whole of this volume is a reprint of the serious portion of Phantasmagoria and other Poems, which was first published […]
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The Fate of Fenella
Written or Published : Bram Stoker, British Authors, English Authors, Irish Authors, Scottish Authors, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Fate of Fenella a Novel by 24 Authors The Fate of Fenella A Novel By Helen Mathers Justin H. McCarthy, M. P. Frances Eleanor Trollope A. Conan Doyle May Crommelin F. C. Phillips “Rita” Joseph Hatton Mrs. Lovett Cameron Bram Stoker Florence Marryat Frank Danby Mrs. Edward Kennard Richard Dowling Mrs. Hungerford Arthur A’Beckett […]
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F. Anstey – The Fate of Fenella Chapter XXIV: Whom The Gods Hate Die Hard
Written or Published : British Authors, English Authors
The Fate of Fenella Chapter XXIV: Whom The Gods Hate Die Hard by F. Anstey The Fate of Fenella Contents The Fate of Fenella Chapter I : Fenella The Fate of Fenella Chapter II : Kismet The Fate of Fenella Chapter III : How it Strikes a Contemporary The Fate of Fenella Chapter IV : […]
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Tasma – The Fate of Fenella Chapter XXIII : Sick Unto Death
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The Fate of Fenella Chapter XXIII : Sick Unto Death by Jessie Catherine Couvreur (Tasma) The Fate of Fenella Contents The Fate of Fenella Chapter I : Fenella The Fate of Fenella Chapter II : Kismet The Fate of Fenella Chapter III : How it Strikes a Contemporary The Fate of Fenella Chapter IV : […]
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