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The early twentieth century writer M. P. Shiel was a master of supernatural horror and science-fi...

A colourful figure of the late eighteenth century, Elizabeth Inchbald ran away as a teenager to b...

The seventeenth century painter Nicolas Poussin founded the French Classical tradition, working t...

Aratus of Soli was a third century BC didactic poet at the court of Antigonus Gonatas of Macedoni...

The American author and creator of the folk character Uncle Remus, Joel Chandler Harris produced ...

Believed by some to be the true author of Shakespeare's plays, the Elizabethan poet, dramatist an...

One of the major metaphysical poets of seventeenth century English literature, Richard Crashaw wa...

The eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie was a prominent f...