Best known by the name Annie Louisa Walker this writer later published work under her married name Annie Louisa Coghill. She was born in England but moved to Canada while a young girl, remaining there for about ten years before returning to her homeland. She was primarily an author of fiction but also published at least two collections of poetry. Much ...
Anne Ridler was one of England’s finest 20th century poets who was heavily influenced, and indeed mentored by, T S Eliot. She had a number of collections of poetry published along with several verse dramas which were performed across the south of England around the period of the Second World War. It was hard to find stage plays being performed at ...
Ann Radcliffe was a late 18th/early 19th century English writer who lived a somewhat reclusive life, to the extent that very little has been written about her. It has been said that she was one of the pioneers of the “gothic novel”. Others had written in this style before her but she had a way of explaining the supernatural as, in general ...
Born in Plymouth in the South of England in 1840, poet Henry Austin Dobson became one of the most distinguished writers of the 19th Century with works such as At the Sign of the Lyre as well as a series of later biographies of influential writers. His father was an engineer with French ancestry and the family moved to Anglesey in ...
Born in 1885 in Elgin, Scotland, Andrew Young was a poet and minister who, while less well known than some of his literary peers, produced a large body of work that has appeared in several anthologies over the years. His father was a station master and the family moved to Edinburgh when Young was only two years old. After going to Gillespie’s ...
