Lala Fisher was an Australian born poet and literary editor. She was born on the 27th January 1872, and named Mary Lucy Richardson in Rockhampton, Queensland. Her father, named Archibald, was a member of a team that had been out on expeditions mapping the area and later made a name for himself discovering precious stones, in the form of zircons and sapphires, close to ...
Jules Supervielle was a Uruguayan poet, short story writer and playwright whose efforts earned him a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature on no less than three occasions. He was born on the 16th January 1884 in Montevideo to a French father and a Basque mother. Tragedy struck in the first year of his life though when both parents died while the family were ...
Edward Herbert, the 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury KB, was a poet of English and Welsh origins. He was also a distinguished soldier, diplomat and religious philosopher. He was born on the 3rd March 1583 at Eyton-on-Severn in Worcestershire, the son of Richard Herbert whose family links to the Earls of Pembroke enabled him to occupy Montgomery Castle in Wales. He was taught ...
Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney was an American poet and teacher of the 19th century who wrote under a number of pseudonyms including "Sadie Sensible" and “Minnie May”. Much of her work was religiously-themed and her words were often set to music and sung as hymns. These were so popular that they could be found in American hymn books for at least fifty ...
Julia A. Moore, also known as Julia Ann Moore and the "Sweet Singer of Michigan", was an American poet. However she is better known by the derogatory term of “poetaster” which means that, like the Scottish William McGonagall, she perfected the art of writing “bad poetry”. She was born Julia Ann Davis on the 1st December 1847 on the family farm in the Kent County, ...
