Eunice Tietjens was an American writer, lecturer, magazine editor and journalist. Her literary output was prolific, with at least four volumes of poetry alongside novels and children’s stories seeing publication. She was born Eunice Strong Hammond on the 29th July 1884 in Chicago, the daughter of an artist. Her education was provided at various establishments in Europe and this will have given her a ...
The English writer and university professor F W Moorman was an expert on the Yorkshire dialect and used it to great effect in a number of his poems. His literary output included poetry and plays and he edited works by Shakespeare and others. During the last six years of his life he was Professor of English Language at the University of Leeds. He was born Frederic William Moorman ...
Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev was a 19th century Russian poet who literary historians consider to be the last of the great Romantics, the other two being Mikhail Lermontov and Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. He also translated the classics into Russian and spent many years working abroad as an official in the Russian Foreign Office. He was born on the 5th December 1803 into very comfortable ...
Eve Langley was an Australian-born poet and novelist who spent much of her life in New Zealand. Her work often reflected the difficulties that women of her era had in being accepted as a serious writer and choosing to be an artist or writer alongside (or instead of) the traditional female family role. She was born Ethel Jane Langley on the 1st September 1904 ...
Ewart Mackintosh was a Scottish poet and soldier whose bravery at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917 won him the Military Cross. He was one of the so-called “War Poets” and his work has been compared favourably with that of Rupert Brooke and others. He was born Ewart Alan Mackintosh on the 4th March 1893 on the south coast of England, in ...
Frigyes Karinthy was a Hungarian writer whose main claim to fame was that, in 1929, he devised the “six degrees of separation” theory whereby anyone or anything can be linked by no more than six distinct but interlocking steps. He was a popular poet and playwright, and also a journalist and translator of many English-written books into Hungarian. He was born on the 25th June ...
Francis Sherman was a Canadian poet and banker who had the distinction of being “the youngest man in Canada” to hold the post of bank manager, at the age of 27. His literary output was quite considerable, with a number of titles against his name, especially towards the end of the 19th century. He was born Francis Joseph Sherman on the 3rd February 1871 ...
Franklin P. Adams, more often just known by his initials F.P.A. in American journalistic circles, was a writer of poetry as well as being a popular newspaper columnist. He often appeared on the radio as a panellist on a quiz show which was aired by NBC between 1938 and 1951. His ready wit and great intelligence were put to good use when ...
Francis William Lauderdale Adams was a 19th century Australian writer although he was actually born on the island of Malta. He lived only a short life but his literary output of poetry, novels and plays was considerable. He also spent time as a journalist, school teacher and was briefly an attaché in Paris. He was born on the 27th September 1862, the son of an army ...
François Villon was a most colourful character in 15th century France. In literary terms he is generally believed to be the best known French poet of his time but, from a personal perspective, he was a villain who seemed to be constantly at odds with the law and never far from the hangman’s noose. He was, in fact, sentenced to death in 1463 ...
