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Sara Coleridge

Literature; General literature

(1802-1852) Miscellaneous writer, the only daughter of the above, married her cousin, Henry Nelson C. She translated Dobrizhöffer's Account of the Abipones, and The Joyous and Pleasant History. .. of ...

Louisa M. Alcott

Literature; General literature

(1832-1888) Writer of juvenile and other tales, daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, an educational and social theorist, lecturer, and author, was born in Pennsylvania. During the American civil war she ...

Mathilde Blind

Literature; General literature

(1841-1896) Poetess, born at Mannheim, but settled in London about 1849, and puborn several books of poetry, The Prophecy of St. Oran (1881), The Heather on Fire (1886), Songs and Sonnets (1893), ...

Erigena

Literature; General literature

(flourished 850) (Born John Scotus) Philosopher, born in Scotland or Ireland, was employed at the Court of Charles the Bald, King of France. He was a pantheistic mystic, and made translations from ...

Maria (Gowan) Brooks

Literature; General literature

(1795?-1845) American poetess, was early married to a merchant, who lost his money, and left her a young widow, after which she wrote highly romantic and impassioned poetry. Her chief work, Zophiël ...

Samuel Butler

Literature; General literature

(1825-1902) Miscellaneous writer, educated at Shrewsbury and Cambridge, wrote two satirical books, Erewhon (nowhere) (1872), and Erewhon Revisited (1901). He translated the Iliad and Odyssey in ...

John Milton

Literature; General literature

(1608-1674) Poet, was born 9th December 1608 in Bread Street, London. His father, also John, was the son of a yeoman of Oxfordshire, who cast him off on his becoming a Protestant. He had then become ...