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Mary Hunter Austin Mary Hunter Austin was born on September 9, 1868 in Carlinville, Illinois (the fourth of six children) to George and Susannah (Graham) Hunter. She graduated from Blackburn College in 1888. Her family moved to California in the same year and established a homestead in the San Joaquin Valley. Mary married Stafford Wallace…
Fanny Burney Fanny Burney (Frances d’Arblay, née Burney) was born on June 13, 1752, at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England. She died on January 6, 1840, in London. She was an English novelist and letter writer, who was the author of Evelina, a landmark in the development of the novel of manners. Fanny was the daughter…
Fanny Burney Fanny Burney (Frances d’Arblay, née Burney) was born on June 13, 1752, at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England. She died on January 6, 1840, in London. She was an English novelist and letter writer, who was the author of Evelina, a landmark in the development of the novel of manners. Fanny was the daughter…
Fanny Burney Fanny Burney (Frances d’Arblay, née Burney) was born on June 13, 1752, at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England. She died on January 6, 1840, in London. She was an English novelist and letter writer, who was the author of Evelina, a landmark in the development of the novel of manners. Fanny was the daughter…
Fanny Burney Fanny Burney (Frances d’Arblay, née Burney) was born on June 13, 1752, at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England. She died on January 6, 1840, in London. She was an English novelist and letter writer, who was the author of Evelina, a landmark in the development of the novel of manners. Fanny was the daughter…
Fanny Burney Fanny Burney (Frances d’Arblay, née Burney) was born on June 13, 1752, at King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England. She died on January 6, 1840, in London. She was an English novelist and letter writer, who was the author of Evelina, a landmark in the development of the novel of manners. Fanny was the daughter…
The publication of Perfume: Poems and Word Sonnets by Seymour Mayne marks sixty years since his first writings appeared in a Canadian literary journal. He is the author, editor or translator of more than seventy books. His latest collections include The Old Blue Couch and Other Stories, Cusp: Word Sonnets, and In Your Words: Translations…
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe Moll Flanders is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. By 1721, Defoe had become a recognised novelist, with…
Sarah Margaret Fuller (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850) Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli was an American journalist, editor, critic, translator, and women’s rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first American female war correspondent, writing for Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune, and full-time book reviewer in journalism. Her book Woman in…
Flaming Youth by Samuel Hopkins Adams Flaming Youth is a 1923 book, controversial in its time, by Samuel Hopkins Adams. The novel was adapted into the silent movie Flaming Youth in 1923. In his retrospective essay “Echoes of the Jazz Age,” writer F. Scott Fitzgerald argued that Adams’ novel persuaded certain moralistic Americans that their…