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Charles Graham Halpine was an Irish-born American journalist, poet and soldier who served as an officer on the Unionist side during the American Civil War, eventually rising to the rank of Colonel. Much of his poetry was written using the pseudonym Miles O’Reilly, a fictitious low ranking Irish soldier. He was born on the 20th November 1829 in the small town of Oldcastle, County ...
This Canadian writer was usually referred to as Charles G D Roberts, and became so famous throughout his homeland that he is generally recognised as the Father of Canadian poetry, being one of the very first of his compatriots to achieve worldwide fame and influence as a poet. Throughout his life he was a constant champion for Canadian literature, encouraging readers to explore ...
Charles Heavysege is considered one of the greatest Canadian writers of plays and poetry yet he did not emigrate to that country until he was in his 30s. He also made his name there as a journalist, in Montreal. He was English-born and yet Canadian literature critics seem to have claimed him as one of their own. They considered him a serious ...
Charles Henry Souter was a Scottish born poet and artist who lived for much of his life in Australia. He was a qualified medical practitioner and worked often as a locum doctor while finding the time to make a significant contribution to South Australian literature. He was born on the 11th October 1864 in the city of Aberdeen which lies on the north ...
Captain Charles John Beech Masefield, MC was one of the many young men of England who went to war in France and never came back. From the privileged surroundings of his Staffordshire home to the horrors of the front line proved to be a life-changing experience for the cousin of a future Poet Laureate, John Masefield. An England that had, for ...
The English writer Charles Langbridge Morgan was primarily a novelist and playwright and, to a much lesser degree, he was a poet who had his poems published initially in the Westminster Gazette during the early part of the 20th century. In 1917 his wartime poem To America achieved great recognition when it was included in A Treasury of World Poetry, a collection edited ...
The Scottish writer often known as C K Scott Moncrieff was most famous for his translation of Marcel Proust’s seven volume novel À la recherche du temps perdu into English, which he renamed Remembrance of Things Past. This work, although critically well received, was not entirely to the liking of the originator and Proust wrote to Moncrieff to tell him so. A ...
Cecil Chesterton was an English writer who earned his living towards the end of the 19th and the early part of the 20thcenturies as a journalist and political commentator, with occasional forays into the writing of poetry. His most high profile work came between the years 1912-1916 where he edited the influential magazine called The New Witness which exposed an embarrassing episode ...
The American writer, lawyer, artist and soldier, who was more commonly known as C E S Wood, was a major figure in the 19th century civil liberties movement where he worked tirelessly to right the wrongs of his countrymen against many displaced Native American tribes. Although poetry was a part of his literary output his best known work was a satirical collection ...
Charles Dibdin was a multi-talented English musician, poet and dramatic actor who was described as one of those most prolific singer-songwriters of his time which was the latter half of the 18th and early part of the 19th century. Known mostly for his songs and music he is honoured in his birthplace, Southampton, with a plaque fixed to the west face of the ...
