Marya Zaturenska was a 20th century American, Russian-born, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Her poetry was mostly written in a lyrical, optimistic style with occasional dark themes running through it. She was born on the 12th September 1902 in Kiev but she was taken to the United States in 1910 where the family joined the ever growing tide of migrants from Europe in setting up home ...
Max Eastman was an American poet, philosopher and, in his younger days, a keen exponent of radical politics as practiced amongst people of a similar outlook in areas of New York City such as Greenwich Village. He was a patron of the “Harlem Renaissance” which promoted African-American culture and literature and he developed a strong affiliation with communist and socialist movements. However, following ...
Mary Hannay Foott was a Scottish-born Australian poet, art teacher and newspaper columnist whose best remembered piece of work is the poem Where the Pelican Builds. She was born Mary Black on the 26th September 1846 in Glasgow, the daughter of a merchant who took his family to Australia when Mary was seven years old. She went to school in Melbourne and also attended the ...
Mary Eliza Fullerton was an Australian poet, novelist and occasional writer of articles for newspapers. She often wrote using the pseudonym “Alpenstock” but when it came to publishing collections of poetry she also called herself simply “E”. It is believed that she did this because she was conscious of the likely prejudicial reaction of the literary world to a woman author who did ...
The Lady Mary Chudleigh was an English poet whose strong views on the emancipation of women were, perhaps, well ahead of their time. She wrote a number of poems and essays on the relationships between men and women and maintained a strong feminist stance in much of her work. Her poem To the Ladies is a clear message to those women who, ...
