Julia Ward Howe lived most of her life battling constantly to change women’s lives for the better. The United States, just like other parts of the world, was a place where women were allowed little freedom of expression and had precious little control over their own lives. A glaring example of this was her own marriage when she found that her husband, ...
Lascelles Abercrombie was an accomplished English poet, literary critic and journalist who was sometimes referred to as the “Georgian Laureate”. In addition to his writing he occupied a number of significant academic positions at universities in Oxford, Leeds and Liverpool. He is most famous for being part of the so-called group of writers called the “Dymock Poets” during the period immediately before ...
Robert Binyon is well known as one of the First World War Poets who produced significant pieces of work that are remembered to this day. His most famous poem, For the Fallen, was written in the early days of the war, in September 1914. Four lines from it are quoted at every Remembrance Day service across the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth ...
Born in 1483 in Eisleben, Martin Luther is perhaps one of the most influential religious figures of the last millennium. His role in the Protestant Reformation and his excommunication by the Catholic Church was one of the first major challenges to the power of the Pope across Europe. Baptized as a Catholic, he spent most of his childhood growing up in ...
Born in Prague in 1901, Jaroslav Seifert was one of the most noted Czech poets and writers of the 20th Century and received the Nobel Prize in 1984. A critic of the communist regime at heart, he was at the forefront of the avant-garde movement and helped create, and was a regular contributor for, the artistic magazine Devětsil. Brought up in a ...
