Poet, critic and writer Andrew Lang was born in Selkirk in 1844 and had many interests that ranged from folklore and psychic phenomena to the Greek classics and journalism. Although not coming from an exceedingly well to do family for the time, and being the oldest child of eight, Lang did benefit from a good education and went onto become one ...
Born in 1769 in Norwich, writer Ameila Opie was perhaps best known for her prose work but also published a number of individual poems and collections during her lifetime. She was brought up in a reasonably affluent family, her father was a physician and her cousin a prominent judge in the region. She was a fervently political individual at a time ...
Born in 1907 in the Snowy Mountain region of New South Wales, Alec Derwent Hope was a prolific Australian poet and satirical writer. His father was a minister and the young Hope spent his education at Fort Street School for Boys in Sydney and then moved on to take a BA at the nearby university. After winning a scholarship, Hope found ...
Vitezslav Nezval was a Czech born writer of the 20th century who became known as one of the leading surrealist poets of his time. During the 1920s and 1930s his writing output was considerable and he made a point of travelling to Paris as often as possible so that he could exchange his ideas with French surrealist poets. In 1934 he set ...
William Brighty Rands was an English writer of the 19th century who specialised in writing for children. For some time he was a chapel preacher and wrote a number of inspirational, original hymns that have been included in Congregational hymn books. He was a shy, sometimes eccentric, man who clearly didn’t actively seek fame and fortune as a poet and novelist, as ...
