The Voyniches did not marry until 1902 and then perhaps only to insure the success of Voynich’s application for citizenship in 1904.(11) Ethel’s writing, particularly her descriptions of nature, had always impressed Stepniak who encouraged her to ‘observe the characters of human beings and ...
Born in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, Burgundy, Colette ghost-wrote her early novels, including the first four Claudine novels (Claudine à l’école (1900,) Claudine à Paris (1901,) Claudine en ménage (1902,) and Claudine s’en va (1903,)) using her first husband’s pseudonym, Willy. Fr...
Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 (some sources cite 1901), in Joplin, Missouri. Descendant of enslaved African American great-grandmothers and white great-grandfathers who were slave owners and traders. He was named James Mercer Langston Hughes by parents Caroline and James Nathaniel H...
When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight. —James Joyce Topics:Soul,Light,Try When the Irishman is found outside of Ireland in another environment, he very often becomes a respected man. The economic and intellectual conditions...
of some note, the case received wide coverage.Ambrose Goddard Hesketh Pratt was born in August 1874 in the NSW town of Forbes where his father, Dr Eustace Henry Lever Pratt, had been appointed Government Medical Officer and Vaccinator for the Police District of Forbes in April of that year...
Short Stories and Feminist Exploration (1888-1902) Art Gems for the Home and Fireside(1888) "The Yellow Wallpaper" (1899) In This Our World(1893) "The Elopement" (1893) The Impress(1894-1895; home to several poems and short stories) ...
5 Lewis's mother EmmaKermoll Lewis, died in 1891. The following year, his fathermarried Isabel Warner whose company young Lewis apparentlyenjoyed. Throughout his lonely boyhood, the unhandsomeLewis had trouble gaining friends.In late 1902 Lewis left home for a year at OberlinAcademy to qualify...
ready to explode at any moment.Things went awry for Soseki almost from birth. Born in Edo in 1867, only a few months before the capital was renamed Tokyo, Soseki, the last of a brood of eight, was given up for adoption not once, but twice in his first three years. While his second...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES-SAAVEDRA (1547-1616), the author of Don Quixote, was born at Alcalá de Henares, the ancient Complutum, a small town in the province of New castile, in 1547. The day of his birth is not known, but as he was baptized on the 9th of October it is conjectured ...
Stella Gibbons(born January 5, 1902,London, England—died December 19, 1989, London) was an English novelist and poet whose firstnovel,Cold Comfort Farm(1932), a burlesque of the rural novel, won for her in 1933 the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize and immediate fame. ...