John Townsend Trowbridge was an American poet, novelist and newspaper man who had strong abolitionist views, some of which almost got the paper that he was writing for closed down. His literary output included a number of titles written under the pseudonym Paul Creyton. He was born on the 18th September 1827 in a little log cabin that his father had built in Ogden, ...
John Trumbull was an American poet and lawyer whose most famous work, the multi-part M’Fingal, picked him out as a notable political satirist at the time of the Wars of Independence. He was also a well-respected attorney in both Massachusetts and Connecticut as well as serving as a state legislator and judge. He was born on the 24th April 1750 in Watertown, Connecticut, although ...
John Webster was an English writer of the Jacobean era who was around at the time of William Shakespeare, being a contemporary of the Bard in that he became a famous poet and playwright. Webster’s best known piece of work is the tragic play The Duchess of Malfi, and it is still performed to this day. Details of his early life are obscure but it ...
John Wilbye was an English Renaissance poet and one of the finest recorded composers of madrigal musical pieces. He was born some time in February or March, 1574 in the small Suffolk village of Brome, which is close to Diss. Being the son of a landowner and successful farmer his family circumstances were comfortable and he soon developed writing and musical skills that ...
John Wilson FRSE, also known as John Wilson of Elleray, was a Scottish writer, academic, literary critic and advocate. He made many contributions to a periodical called Blackwood"s Edinburgh Magazine using the pseudonym Christopher North. During the final two decades of his using the pseudonym Christopher North. During the final two decades of his life he served as professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University. He was ...
