Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE was born on 7 September 1887 in Scarborough in the North Riding of ...

Willa Sibert Cather was born on 7th December, 1873 and although born in Virginia grew up and was ...

Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground is both a fictional and philosophical work. It is...

Shelley is one of the most revered figures in the English poetical landscape. Born on the 4th A...

Thomas Gray was born on 26 December 1716 in Cornhill in London.His father was a scrivener and h...

Born in 1797, Mary Shelley's mother died when she was only 11 days old.Mary was then raised by ...

Thomas Chatterton was born on November 20th, 1752 in Bristol.Somewhat lonely as a child his con...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language.With almost a million words at its command it is not su...

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born on the 1st April 1875 in Greenwich, London. Leaving school...

John Galsworthy was born at Kingston Upon Thames in Surrey, England, on August 14th 1867 to a wea...

Henry James's The Pupil is a short story whose events center around a teen-age pupil named Morgan...

Henrik Ibsen (20th March, 1828 - 23rd May, 1906) is often referred to as the father of realism an...