James Monroe Whitfield was a 19th century poet and political activist on behalf of African Americans. He was born on April 10, 1822 in New Hampshire. There are only scant records of his early years but it is known that he received very little in the way of formal education so it can be assumed that he was pretty much self-taught in many respects. ...
James Kenneth Stephen was a 19th century English poet. He also held the privileged position of private tutor to the Prince of Wales’s son, Prince Albert Victor. He was born into affluent circumstances in London on the 25th February 1859, the son of barrister-at-law Sir James Fitzjames Stephen. He had at least one notable literary family connection in the Bloomsbury Group writer Virginia ...
John Farrell, an Argentinean-born Australian poet, journalist, gold digger and brewer, was born on the 18th December 1851 in Buenos Aires, to a chemist who had emigrated with his wife from Dublin four years earlier. Within a year the family were on the move again, this time heading for Victoria where Mr Farrell tried his hand at prospecting for gold, and then ...
John Bernard O"Hara was a poet and distinguished schoolmaster in Australia. He was born on the 29th October 1862 in the Central Victorian town of Bendigo, the son of a minor Irish-born poet and teacher at a primary school. He survived his school days unscathed despite severe financial troubles which led to the loss of the family home. He was a very able young ...
John Barlas was a poet and revolutionary socialist political activist who was often known in literary circles by the pseudonym Evelyn Douglas. He had at least eight books of Swinburnean-influenced verse published and he was known to favour the Decadent Movement of arts and literature. This was a Western Europe-wide concept that emphasised an “aesthetic ideology of excess and artificiality” Examples of work ...
