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| Kathleen Cunningham Guler is the author of the multi-award winning four-part Macsen's Treasure Series of historical spy thrillers set in fifth century Britain. She has also published numerous articles, essays, short stories, reviews and poems. A descendant of the Celtic nations of Wales and Scotland, the author has dra....[more] |
| English poet Alfred Tennyson was born on August 6, 1809 in Lincolnshire, England. The fourth of twelve children, Tennyson spent a few years unhappy with traditional schooling before being tutored at home. In 1827, Tennyson moved to Cambridge where he enrolled in Trinity College. That same year, his work was publishe....[more] |
| It is hard to find a more polarizing author than Austen, who was revered by her admirers and despised by her critics. Either way, her works demand a passionate response two hundred years after they were published. Born in 1775 in England to a middle-class family, Austen had her greatest success shortly before her death....[more] |
| and short stories, was born in Dublin in 1906. Graduating from Trinity College, Beckett found work as a teacher. He soon befriended James Joyce, even taking dictation for parts of “Finnegans Wake”. Beckett began writing, starting as a poet but then moving on to essays and finally publishing his first novel, “More Prick....[more] |
| William Blake (November 28,1757- August 12, 1827) Blake was an was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He was the third of seven children. Blake's father, James, was a hosier. William never attended school, and was educated at home by his mother Catherine Wright Armitage Blake. The Bible was an early and profoun....[more] |
| Samuel Butler, English writer, artist, and satirist, was born on December 4th, 1835 in Nottinghamshire, England. The eldest of four children, Butler had a rather hostile relationship with his parents. Though his education started at home, he referred to his parents as “stupid” and soon began to reject his strict Angl....[more] |
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