Francis Bret Harte was an American poet, playwright, journalist, literary critic and short story writer. Many of his pieces featured characters from the California Gold Rush such as the miners themselves and their gambling habits. He travelled widely across America and in Europe, gathering inspiration for future projects all the time. He was born Francis Brett Hart on the 25th August 1836 in Albany, ...
Francis Miles Finch was a US poet, academic and judge. He also served under President Ulysses Grant as a collector of internal revenue for the Twenty-sixth District, New York but this appointment lasted only four years when Finch resigned his post. His most famous literary work would probably be the poem The Blue and the Gray which is the story of reconciliation and unity after the ...
Frederic Manning was an Australian-born poet and novelist who lived most of his life in England. He was born on the 22nd July 1882 in Sydney into a large family of eight children, His father was the politician Sir William Patrick Manning whose ancestors had emigrated from Ireland. Frederic was educated at home and suffered with asthma from his infancy. Although the family were Roman Catholics ...
Francis Hopkinson was an 18th century American poet, song writer and politician whose major claim to fame would be that he was the designer of the first American flag following the War of Independence. He was also a high ranking lawyer, sitting as a judge and he also filled a number of positions in the fledgling government. He was born in September 1737 in Philadelphia. ...
Geoffrey Grigson was a 20th century English poet and literary critic whose cutting critical reviews of other writers’ work often made him enemies. Additionally he was a naturalist and literary magazine editor during the 1930s. His own poetic output was considerable, numbering some thirteen collections published during his long life time, and he often used the pseudonym Martin Boldero. He was born Geoffrey Edward ...
