“Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb (1876-1944) was an American author, humorist, and columnist who lived in New York and authored more than 60 books and 300 short stories. (…) Cobb is best remembered for his humorous stories of Kentucky local color. These stories were first collected in the book Old Judge Priest (1915), whose title character was based on a [...]
“Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813-1871) was an American writer, essayist and critic. Tuckerman was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a sympathetic and delicate critic, with a graceful style. He wrote extensively both in prose and verse. He travelled much in Italy, which influenced his choice of subjects in his earlier writings. These include The Italian Sketch-book (1835),
“Catherine Pozzi (1882-1934) was a French poet and woman of letters. Catherine Pozzi was born in an aristocratic and bourgeois environment at the end of the 19th century, to Samuel Pozzi, surgeon and gynecologist, and Thérèse Loth-Cazalis. (…) At the age of 19, she read the published diary of Marie Bashkirtseff, and it had a profound effect upon [...]
“Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925) was a Russian lyrical poet. (…) Although he was one of Russia’s most popular poets and had been given an elaborate funeral by the State, most of his writings were banned by the Kremlin during the reigns of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. Nikolai Bukharin’s criticism of Yesenin contributed significantly to the banning. Only in 1966 were [...]
“August Lafontaine (1758-1831) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. (…) Zu seiner Zeit war Lafontaine einer der meistgelesenen Schriftsteller Deutschlands, aber später geriet er fast vollständig in Vergessenheit. Zu seinen berühmtesten Lesern gehören Napoleon, Franz Grillparzer, Joseph von Eichendorff und die Königin Luise von Preußen. Lafontaine ist Erfinder und zugleich Koryphäe der spießbürgerlich-moralisch-sentimentalen Richtung, die der Roman, wie [...]
“Prentice Mulford (1834–1891) was a noted literary humorist and California author. (…) He became known for his humorous style of writing and vivid descriptions of both mining life as well as life at sea. (…) Mulford was also instrumental in the founding of the popular philosophy, New Thought, along with other notable writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mulford’s book, Thoughts are things served as a guide [...]
“Blaise de Monluc (ca. 1502-1577) est un homme de guerre et homme de lettres. Principalement connu pour ses Commentaires, Monluc s’illustra pendant les guerres d’Italie et les guerres de religion. Serviteur de cinq rois (François Ier,Henri II, François II, Charles IX et Henri III) il fut élevé à la dignité de maréchal de France en 1574.”
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“Hester Lynch Thrale (1741- 1821) was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life. (…) After her marriage, Mrs Thrale was liberated and free to associate with whom she pleased. Due to her husband’s financial status, she was able to enter London society, as a result of which she met [...]
“Oskar Panizza (1853-1921) was a German psychiatrist and avant-garde author, playwright, novelist, poet, essayist, publisher and literary journal editor. He is best known for his provocative tragicomedy, Das Liebeskonzil (The Love Council, 1894), for which he served a one-year prison sentence after being convicted in Munich in 1895 on 93 counts of blasphemy. Upon his release from prison, he lived for eight years in exile, first in [...]
“David Garnett (1892-1981) was a British writer and publisher. As a child, he had a cloak made of rabbit skin and thus received the nickname “Bunny”, by which he was known to friends and intimates all his life. (…) A prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group, Garnett received literary recognition when his novel Lady into fox, an allegorical fantasy, was awarded the 1922 James Tait Black [...]