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It is generally believed that Lucy Terry Prince was the first black poet in America to have work published. Unfortunately only one of her poems has survived. Bars Fight is a true story about the killing of two white families by Native Americans. As an infant she was plucked from her home somewhere in West Africa and then transported across the ocean. ...
Laura Elizabeth Richards was a prolific American writer who was responsible for some ninety books during her lifetime. She is best known for her children’s stories and poetry with, possibly, her most famous piece of work being a short piece of poetic nonsense called Eletelephony. She lived a long life and was highly regarded in both 19th and 20th century literary circles ...
Born in 1831 in New York City, Mary Mapes Dodge was a children’s writer and occasional poet who is probably more well-known for her fictional work Hans Brinker than her small collection of verses. She was brought up in an educated family, her father a professor, chemist and inventor, and she was given a solid early education through private tutors ...
Born in Arkansas in 1878, Karle Wilson Baker was a poet and writer who was most known for her poetry collections The Burning Bush and Old Coins and her novel Family Styles. Although she was brought up in Arkansas, she moved with her parents to Texas and fell in love with the state’s history and people, writing extensively about its ...
Born in 1892 in Adelaide, South Australia, Leon Gellert was a poet and writer who served in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign during the First World War before being wounded in battle. He was brought up by an indulgent mother and a Methodist father of Hungarian origins who did not believe in sparing the rod. Gellert himself was a strong child and ...
Mary Leapor was born in Northamptonshire in 1722 and is noted for being one of the most acclaimed poets of the time who actually came from a working class background. Her achievement, particularly the publication of her most well-known work Poems Upon Several Occasions, is all the more remarkable in that she died at the age of just 24. Leapor was the ...
Born in 1891 in Krakow, poet Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska spoke multiple languages and spent her life traveling from place to place in Europe, rising to prominence as a writer during the interval between the two world wars. From the beginning, she was born into a very artistic and bohemian family environment, brought up surrounded by a variety of painters, poets, authors and ...
Li Ch’ing Chao (also known as Li Cingzhao or Li Qingzhao) was a cultured Chinese writer of noble birth who lived at the time of the Song dynasty, a period in history that lasted from the 10th to the late 13th centuries. She was a poet and most of her work was written in the ci form and it is believed that ...
John Millington Synge was a controversial Irish writer whose plays often found him at odds with the public, in particular those with strong Irish nationalist feelings. The production that many have considered to be his finest work, a play called The Playboy of the Western World, actually caused riots when it was performed in Dublin and was described in such terms as: ...
John Lyly was a 16th century English writer who considered himself a playwright at first but who, later on, switched to poetry. He is best remembered though for two novels: Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and His England (1580). He invented a whole new style of writing which became known as “Euphuism”, in honour of his first book. It has ...
