Elinor Morton Hoyt Wylie was an American writer whose short life spanned only four decades either side of the turn of the 20th century. She was a great beauty and, as such, was known for that as much as her literary talent and her poetry was described as having melodious and sensuous properties. She was born Elinor Morton Hoyt on the 7th September 1885 into a ...
Eliza Acton was a 19th century English poet and pioneer of cookery writing. Her books on kitchen arts, including detailed recipes with cooking times, were for the benefit of those cooking in their own homes as opposed to professional chefs. Isabella Beeton followed her example much later and made a great commercial success of her venture. She was born Elizabeth Acton in the south ...
Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy, MC was an English poet and Anglican priest who was immortalised for his work with wounded soldiers of the First World War. His pastoral and humanist care earned him the epithet 'Woodbine Willie' because of his habit of distributing cigarettes of that name to the men. His distinguished military career earned him the Military Cross, awarded for a ...
Ernst Toller was a German-Jewish poet and playwright who was well known for his plays written in a style of writing known as Expressionism, a movement popular especially in Germany during the early part of the 20th century. His poetry often portrayed his anger at the senseless slaughter of men during the First World War, with stark titles such as Corpses in the Woods. ...
Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was an English lyric poet, favoured member of Queen Elizabeth’s court, song writer and playwright. Although he was popular as a courtier his often reckless nature meant that he was never taken seriously enough to be offered any position of responsibility in government. Literary critics espoused the theory during the 19th century that he, ...
