Elizabeth Drew Stoddard was an American poet, short story writer and novelist. Probably her best known piece of work was her first novel, The Morgesons. This was a powerful, coming-of-age story of a woman seeking to make her way in 19th century New England, a time when females were universally oppressed. She was born Elizabeth Drew Barstow on the 6th May 1823 in ...
Emma Hart Willard was an American poet, author of books on American history, life-long educator and great champion of American women’s rights, although her influence spread to other parts of the world in time. Her reputation had been forged at the Troy Female Seminary in New York, an establishment that she had founded. It was the first school exclusively for the higher education of women. She ...
Endre Ady, whose name was sometimes anglicised to Andrew Ady, was a Hungarian poet and journalist. He always tried to break away from the traditional, folksy style adopted by 19th century Hungarian poets and, indeed, he became known as the first of the modern poets in his country. He came into the world on the 22nd November 1877 in a village called Érmindszent, Szilágy County, ...
Enid Derham was an Australian poet and editor of other writers’ work in poetry, drama and prose. She was an academic all of her life, filling the position of senior lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne from 1922 until her untimely death almost twenty years later. She was born on the 24th March 1882 in Hawthorn, a suburb of the Victorian city of Melbourne, the ...
Epes Sargent was a 19th century American poet, playwright, novelist and newspaper editor. Probably his best known popular piece of work was the poem A Life on the Ocean Wave which was set to music and turned into a jaunty nautical song which is still sung to this day. He was born on the 27th September 1813 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. His father, also called ...
