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Nan Shepherd. Anna " Nan " Shepherd (11 February 1893 – 27 February 1981) was a Scottish Modernist writer and poet, best known for her seminal mountain memoir, The Living Mountain, based on experiences of hill walking in the Cairngorms. This is noted as an influence by nature writers who include Robert Macfarlane and Richard Mabey. [1]
Nana was born on 18 May 1824 as Nana Govind Dhondu Pant, to Narayan Bhat and Ganga Bai.After the Maratha defeat in the Third Anglo-Maratha War, the East India Company had exiled Peshwa Baji Rao II to Bithur (near Kanpur), but the Company allowed him to maintain a large establishment paid for in part out of a British pension.
Rochemont Barbauld. . . (m. 1774; died 1808) . Anna Laetitia Barbauld (/ bɑːrˈboʊld /, by herself possibly / bɑːrˈboʊ /, as in French, née Aikin; 20 June 1743 – 9 March 1825 [1]) was a prominent English poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, and author of children's literature. A prominent member of the Blue Stockings Society [2][3 ...
Rajkumar Bharathi (great-grandson) Signature. C. Subramania Bharati[a] (IPA: / ˌsuˈbrəˌmənˈjʌ ˈbɑːˌrʌθi /; born C. Subramaniyan 11 December 1882 – 12 September 1921) was an Indian writer, poet, journalist, teacher, Indian independence activist, social reformer and polyglot. He was bestowed the title Bharati for his poetry and was ...
Longfellow wrote to his friend Ferdinand Freiligrath (who had introduced him to Finnische Runen in 1842) [23] [24] about the latter's article, "The Measure of Hiawatha" in the prominent London magazine, Athenaeum (December 25, 1855): "Your article ... needs only one paragraph more to make it complete, and that is the statement that parallelism ...
Margaret Yvonne Busby, CBE, Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK.She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisher [1] [2] when she and Clive Allison (1944–2011) co-founded [3] the London-based publishing house Allison and Busby (A & B) in the 1960s. [4]
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (née Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) [1] was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded the Irish Literary Theatre and the Abbey Theatre, and wrote numerous short works for both companies. Lady Gregory produced a number of books of ...
Signature. Ernest Miller Hemingway (/ ˈhɛmɪŋweɪ / HEM-ing-way; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image.