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Nana Asma'u (1793–1864), Fulani poet and pioneer of women's education in Sokoto Caliphate. Mah Laqa Bai (1768–1824), Urdu poet and philanthropist. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic and children's author. Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), English poet and painter.
20th Century Boy. " 20th Century Boy " is a song by T. Rex, written by Marc Bolan, released as a stand-alone single on 2 March 1973. [4] Although at first considered as its closing track, "20th Century Boy" was not featured on the album Tanx, released at the same time in early March. It was later added as a bonus track on the 1985 reissue of ...
Elizabeth Bartlett (British poet) Susan Bassnett. Liz Berry. Tessa Biddington. Anna Blackwell. Valerie Bloom. Emma Scarr Booth. Marjorie Boulton. Andrea Brady.
The Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature. Prentice Hall, 1992. (Internet Archive) Greer, Germaine, ed. Kissing the Rod: an anthology of seventeenth-century women's verse. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1988. Lonsdale, Roger ed. Eighteenth Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Adelaide Anne Procter (30 October 1825 – 2 February 1864) was an English poet and philanthropist.. Her literary career began when she was a teenager, her poems appearing in Charles Dickens's periodicals Household Words and All the Year Round, and later in feminist journals.
Adrienne Cecile Rich (/ ˈ æ d r i ə n / AD-ree-ən; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", [1] [2] and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". [3]
The publication of solo vocal music (songs often called "canzonets" or "canzonettas") with English texts at the end of the 18th century helped to establish the art song genre in subsequent years. George Frideric Handel. English Art song composers in the 18th century. William Croft (c.1678-1727), sacred songs.
Elizabeth Jennings was born at The Bungalow, Tower Road, Skirbeck, Boston, Lincolnshire, younger daughter of physician Henry Cecil Jennings (1893–1967), MA, BSc (Oxon.), MB BS (Lond.), DPH, medical officer of health for Oxfordshire, and (Helen) Mary, née Turner. [2][3] When she was seven, her family moved to Oxford, where she remained for ...