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As one of the first feminists in America Charlotte Perkins Gilman spent her life promoting the right of women to be more than just housewives subjugated to the whims and dominance of their husbands. She was also a poet, novelist and social reform lecturer. She was born in Connecticut, and was one of two children that came into the family on July 3rd ...
Charles Wolfe was an Irish poet and priest who managed to produce only one major body of writing in his lifetime – Poetical Remains – which unfortunately stayed largely unacknowledged until after his death. Wolfe was born December 14th 1791 at Blackhall, County Kildare, Ireland. His family were well respected within the area as they came from upper-class stock. Wolfe’s father was Theobald ...
Charles Warren Stoddard was an American writer who began his writing career amidst the fledging San Francisco literary scene. He did this at first in a clandestine way, keeping the knowledge of his writing from those who knew him. He also flirted briefly but unsuccessfully with a career on the stage. Stoddard came into the world on August 7th 1843 in New York"s ...
Charles Robert Thatcher, poet, songwriter and singer, was the son of an antiques dealer from Bristol who, at the age of 21 became interested in the upsurge in gold mining in Australia. He went with friends to Melbourne to try to make his fortune. After several unsuccessful attempts at the Bendigo digs they eventually hit the jackpot. Thatcher’s share of the claim ...
Do you want to make it as a poet? Do you see yourself as the next William Wordsworth? Are you inspired by the likes of Ezra Pound and Sylvia Plath? If so, you might want to replicate how your favourite poet started out. Did you know, for example, that Theodore Roethke went to the University of Michigan? Or, that Gerard Manley Hopkins studied classics at Balliol College ...
Cicely Fox Smith was an English poet known for writing maritime poetry, although not exclusively; she wrote on other subjects including travel and, along with her sister, children’s novels. She was born February 1st 1882 in Lymm, Cheshire, England into a life of middle-class gentility. Smith did not follow the usual route of the minimum education and early marriage which was expected of ...
Christopher John Brennan was an Australian scholar and poet whose writing was said to be independent of influence but which went on to influence many poets who came after him. He was born in Sydney, Australia on November 1st 1870, the eldest son of Irish Catholic parents Christopher and Mary Ann Brennan. His father previously worked at the Brewery owned by Guinness in ...
Christopher Pearse Cranch was an American writer and artist. He painted landscapes, still life and portraits and his work still commands high prices at art auctions today. He wrote several fantasy books for children – most famously the Huggermugger books - as well as his volumes of poetry. Cranch was born in the district of Columbia on March 8th 1813 the son of ...
Che Lan Vien, born Phan Ngoc Hoan, was a Vietnamese poet and writer who, early in his life would take an active part in the August Revolution of 1945. This mass uprising was in protest against French colonial rule. In just two weeks the Vietnamese revolutionaries had gained control in most parts of the country including the city of Hanoi which is ...
This German writer of poems, songs and novels was a man who appeared never to become settled throughout his life. He was a fiercely studious and religious man whose best work, Romanzen vom Rosenkranz, was published posthumously. Clemens Brentano was born on September 9th 1778 in Ehrenbreitstein, a district of Koblenz in Germany and was the son of wealthy Italian parents – Peter ...
