Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Batrix Beck

Batrix Beck (1914-2008)

Batrix Beck (14 July 1914 - 30 November 2008) was a French writer from Belgian origin. She was born at Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland, the daughter of the poet Christian Beck. After several jobs, she became the secretary of Andr Gide, he encouraged her to write about her experiences: her mother's suicide, the war, her poverty, etc. Beck died in Saint-Clair-sur-Epte in 2008.


C Beck's Books:


[Vanishing Point]

Friday, December 26, 2008

Charles Prestwood Lucas

Charles Prestwood Lucas

Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas K.C.B., K.C.M.G. (1853-1931), was a civil servant and historian of Welsh extraction. Lucas was born at Crickhowell, Brecon, Wales. He was the grandson of Dr. Henry John Lucas (1773-1840) and Jenetta Illtyda (1776-1821) and son of Henry Lucas. His sister, Mary Anne Lucas, married the first Baron Glanusk. Lucas was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. Lucas was called to the bar, Lincoln's Inn, on 30 April 1885.


E Lucas's Books:


[A Boswell Of Baghdad | Adventures And Enthusiasms | Roving East And Roving West | The Flamp The Ameliorator And The Schoolboy Apprentice | A Wanderer In Florence | A Wanderer In Holland | Forgotten Tales Of Long Ago | Highways And Byways In Sussex | The War Of The Wenuses | The Works Of Charles And Mary Lamb Vol 5 | The Works Of Charles And Mary Lamb Volume 2]

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Alex Graves

Alex Graves

Alex Graves is an American television writer, director and producer. He was producer, then supervising producer, then co-executive producer, then executive producer of The West Wing. In 2007, he directed the pilot episode of and executive produced the short-lived Journeyman which aired on NBC. In between, he directed the pilot episode of The Nine, also serving as an executive producer. Graves currently serves as executive producer and director of the FOX series, Fringe.


J Graves's Books:


[Out Of Doors California And Oregon]


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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Baroness Emma Orczy

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865-1947)

Baroness Emma Orczy (1865-1947)

Baroness Emma Magdolna Rozlia Mria Jozefa Borbla "Emmuska" Orczy de Orczi was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.



[A Bride Of The Plains | Fenchurch Street Mystery | Mamzelle Guillotine | Old Hungarian Fairy Tales | Pimpernel And Rosemary | The Bronze Eagle | The Duffield Peerage Case | The First Sir Percy | The Laughing Cavalier | The Murder In Saltashe Woods | The Nest Of The Sparrowhawk | The Ninescore Mystery And Other Stories | The Regent Park Murder | The Robbery In Phillimore Terrace | The York Mystery]


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Thomas Hill

Thomas Hill

Thomas Hill, (b. ca. 1528) was an astrologer, author and translator who most probably also wrote as Didymus Mountain. He was the author of the first popular book in English about gardening - The profitable arte of gardening, first published in 1563 under the title A most briefe and pleasaunte treatyse, teachynge how to dresse, sowe, and set a garden.



[Christmas And Poems On Slavery For Christmas]

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Eduard Pons Prades

Eduard Pons Prades

Eduard Pons Prades (December 19, 1920 - May 28, 2007), also known as Floreado Barsino, was a Spanish writer and historian, specializing in the 20th-century history of Spain. Pons Prades was also active in the Syndicalist Party of ngel Pestaa, a member of the Confederacin Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), and after Francisco Franco's defeat of the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War, a maqui.


A Pons's Books:


[Sainte Beuve Et Ses Inconnues]

Eduard Hanslick

Eduard Hanslick

Eduard Hanslick

Eduard Hanslick (September 11, 1825August 6, 1904) was a Bohemian-Austrian music critic.



[Vom Musikalisch Schonen]


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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Carlo Collodi

Carlo Collodi (1826-1890)

Carlo Collodi (1826-1890) title=

Carlo Lorenzini (November 24, 1826 - October 26, 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi, was an Italian children's writer known for the world-renowned fairy tale novel, The Adventures of Pinocchio.



[The Adventures Of Pinocchio]

Colleen Howe

Colleen Howe (1933-2009)

Colleen Howe (1933-2009) title=

Colleen Joffa Howe (February 17, 1933 - March 6, 2009) was a sports agent who founded Power Play International and Power Play Publications to manage the business interests of her husband, Hall of Fame hockey player Gordie Howe, as well as those of her sons Marty and Mark. She was married to Gordie for 55 years. As a civic leader, she brought the first Junior A hockey team to the United States, built the first indoor rink for public use in Michigan, and ran for Congress. In 2000, as "Mrs. Hockey", Howe received the Wayne Gretzky Award from the United States Hockey Hall of Fame, along with her husband (known as "Mr. Hockey") and their two sons Mark and Marty.


W Howe's Books:


[Kinston Whitehall And Goldsboro north Carolina Expedition]

Clemens Brentano

Clemens Brentano (1778-1842)

Clemens Brentano (1778-1842) title=

Clemens Brentano, or Klemens Brentano (September 9, 1778 - July 28, 1842) was a German poet and novelist.



[Aus Der Chronika Eines Fahrenden Schnlers | Das Maerchen Von Dem Myrtenfraeulein | Die Drei Nsse | Die Mehreren Wehmuller Und Ungarischen Nationalgesichter | Geschichte Vom Braven Kasperl Und Dem Schnen Annerl | Gockel Hinkel Und Gackeleia | Romanzen Vom Rosenkranz]

Monday, December 15, 2008

Emily Anderson

Emily Anderson

Emily Anderson, OBE (March 1891 October 1962) was a British Foreign Office official and scholar of German. Emily Anderson was born to Alexander Anderson from Coleraine and Emily Binns from Galway. Alexander Anderson was President of University College Galway (now known as NUI Galway, www. nuigalway. ie) from 1899-1934 and also Professor of Physics. Emily was one of four children, three daughters (Emily, Helen) and a son. Emily was educated privately before taking up her studies at UCG.



[Married And Single]

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Cyrus Townsend Brady

Cyrus Townsend Brady

Cyrus Townsend Brady

Cyrus Townsend Brady (December 20, 1861 January 24, 1920) was a journalist, historian and adventure writer. His most well-known work is "Indian Fights and Fighters". He was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1883. He was also a deacon in the Episcopal church. His first wife was Clarissa Guthrie, who died in 1890. His second wife was Mary Barrett. Brady's first major book "For Love of Country" whilst telling the story of a fictitious John Seymour was actually based in part on the true heroics of Nicholas Biddle one of the first five captains of fledgling the Continental Navy. Brady died in Yonkers, New York of pneumonia at age 59.



[A Little Book For Christmas | A Little Traitor To The South | The Eagle Of The Empire | The Island Of Regeneration | And Thus He Came | For Love Of Country | Sir Henry Morgan Buccaneer | South American Fights And Fighters]

Friday, December 12, 2008

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Erskine Barton Childers

Erskine Barton Childers

Erskine Barton Childers title=

Erskine Barton Childers (11 March 1929-25 August 1996) was a writer, BBC correspondent and United Nations senior civil servant. He was the eldest son of Erskine Hamilton Childers (Ireland's fourth President) and Ruth Ellen Dow Childers. His grandfather, Robert Erskine Childers and grandmother Mary Alden Childers, were both Irish nationalists involved heavily with the negotiation of Irish independence; which ultimately led to his grandfather's execution during the Irish Civil War.



[The Riddle Of The Sands | In The Ranks Of The C I V | Riddle Of The Sands | The Framework Of Home Rule]

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Charles Carleton Coffin

Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896)

Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896)

Charles Carleton Coffin was an American journalist, Civil War correspondent, author and politician. Charles Carleton Coffin was one of the best-known newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War. He has been called "the Ernie Pyle of his era," and a biographer, W.E. Griffin, referred to him as "a soldier of the pen and knight of the truth. " Yet he remains little known to the present day generation. A descendant of Tristam Coffin who arrived in the American colonies from England in 1642, Charles Carlton Coffin was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, on July 26, 1832. Growing up in rural New Hampshire he was home-schooled by his parents. Village life revolved around the church, and in his teens Charles went to work in a lumbering operation and with $60 from his earnings, he purchased an organ which he gave to the church, and became the first organist. During an illness in 1841-2 he had purchased a book about surveying which had a profound impression on the young man. From it he developed what one biographer calls "an engineer's eye," which led to an interest in roads, rivers and elevations. This interest became apparent later in his writings as a war correspondent. By age 21 Charles left Boscawen and went to the city of Boston where he hired on to a surveying crew working on the road from Boston to Concord, Massachusetts. While thus employed he suffered a severe injury to his ankle when accidentally struck by an ax wielded by a fellow worker. The injury ended that job and later prevented him from serving as a soldier in the Civil War. Lacking in terms of formal education, Charles' keen mind enabled him to achieve a self-taught education in engineering, lumbering and music. After recovery from his ankle injury he found employment in the engineering division of the Northern Railroad, and on February 18, 1846, he married Sally Russell Farmer. Although childless, the marriage was a happy one lasting 50 years. Charles' active mind soon led him to become interested in the relatively new field of electricity and to work on a power line between Boston and Cambridge. At the behest of Sally's father, Charles played a major role in the construction of an electronically transmitted fire alarm system. This was followed by a major change in vocation. Feeling that there was a public interest in concise news and opinion statements rather than long, formal editorials, Charles obtained employment with the Boston Journal newspaper. This led to another milestone in his life after Charles and Sally visited the Saratoga battlefield in 1854. Charles' grandfather had fought in this Revolutionary War battle in 1777, and the visit led Charles to reconstruct in his mind the positions and maneuvering of those who had participated. This interest would have a direct effect on his later reporting during the Civil War. A few years later Charles Coffin inherited 80 acres (320,000 m) of land in Illinois, and he and Sally traveled west to inspect it. Shortly before this, Charles had visited Washington, D.C., and had become interested in politics as a result of listing to speeches by Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, and other well-known political figures. While in Illinois, this new interest in politics led Charles to attend the Republican National Convention of 1860 which was held in Chicago. After the convention Charles was a member of the group that travelled from Chicago to Springfield to advise Abraham Lincoln that he had won the party's nomination for the presidency. In his job as a newspaper reporter, he went on to cover the 1860 election campaign and was in Washington to cover Lincoln's inauguration in March, 1861. Long opposed to slavery and secession, there would be no question of Charles Coffin's loyalty to the Union cause but, due to the old ankle injury, military service which demanded long marches was not an option. It was Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson who suggested to Charles that his eye for detail and his command of language would make him an ideal person to cover the war as a correspondent. On his own and not employed by any specific newspaper, Coffin began visiting the army camps and fortifications around Washington and sending reports to a variety of newspapers. The reports included "human interest" stories obtained through interviews with military personnel ranging from newly enlisted privates to generals. The first major engagement between the Union and Confederate armies was the battle of Bull Run (or Manassas, as it was called in the South) only a few miles out of Washington. Coffin was there and his written accounts of the battle and its aftermath so impressed the editors of his old paper, the Boston Journal, that the paper hired him to "cover the war" at the princely salary of $25 per week! Charles Coffin was off and running! He worked alone, without assistants, and was frequently the first to get reports from the war's battlefields to the media. He was present at, or immediately after, most of the major battles in the eastern theater, including those of Antietam and Gettysburg. He was the first to break the story of the Battle of the Wilderness, and was to become the only news correspondent to serve throughout the entire war -- from before the battle of Bull Run, through Lee's surrender at Appomattox. Coffin was always welcome at Union Army camps and was well-known and on friendly terms with many of the highest Union officers, including General Ulysses Grant, who gave Coffin a pass that allowed him to go anywhere in the Union camps and on the battlefields. Coffin was present when General George Meade replaced Joseph Hooker as commander of the Army of the Potomac just prior to the battle of Gettysburg. Coffin rode with Major General Winfield Scott Hancock on the approach to Gettysburg, and then accompanied Gen. Strong Vincent and Col. Joshua Chamberlain on their way to the successful defense of the strategic hill known as Little Round Top. When the fighting ended after Pickett's charge, Coffin rode 28 miles (45 km) through a driving rainstorm in two and a half hours, and then boarded a train to Baltimore, Maryland, from where he was able to telegraph his story of the battle to the Boston Journal, the first news the nation had of that decisive battle. Coffin was present in South Carolina when the flag was raised over the retaken Fort Sumter, and then hastened back to rejoin Gen. Grant for the final drive to Appomattox for Gen. Lee's surrender. During the war Coffin had used his middle name "Carleton" to sign off on his stories. After the war Coffin returned to Boston for a well-deserved rest, but soon was at work on a series of books detailing his experiences as a correspondent. He wrote My Days and Nights on the Battlefield (1864), Following the Flag and Four Years of Fighting, both published in 1865. Between 1888 and 1891 he also published Drumbeat of the Nation, Marching to Victory (which contained a long account of the Battle of Gettysburg), and Redeeming the Republic. Later, Coffin made a trip to Japan, China and India and described that trip in a book entitled Our New Way Around the World. Finally, he turned to writing stories related to his boyhood and New England heritage, five books in all, and wrote several novels as well as biographical materials on presidents Abraham Lincoln and James Garfield. Charles Carleton Coffin was not only well-known to many U.S. political and military leaders, but to many noted U.S. writers and to a large number of foreign dignitaries. His name is listed on the War Correspondent's Arch at Gathland, Maryland. He died in Brookline, Massachusetts, on March 2, 1896, a few months short of his 73rd birthday.



[My Days And Nights On The Battle Field | Winning His Way]


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George Shepard Chappell

George Shepard Chappell

George Shepard Chappell (1877-1946) was an American architect, journalist (with the magazine Vanity Fair) and author. He graduated from Yale University in 1899 and then trained at the cole Nationale Suprieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He wrote several humorous books during the 1920s and early 1930s, including a series of travel parodies under the pseudonym of Walter E. Traprock.



[Rollo In Society]


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Clayton Hamilton

Clayton Hamilton

Clayton (Meeker) Hamilton (1881- 1927) was an American drama critic. Born in Brooklyn, N. Y., he graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1900 and from Columbia University in 1901. He was extension lecturer on the drama at Columbia University after 1903, and lectured in other connections. He served as dramatic critic and associate editor of the Forum in 1907-09, and as dramatic editor of the Bookman after 1910, of Everybody's Magazine after 1911, and of Vogue after 1912. He was elected a member of The National Institute of Arts and Letters. He edited Stevenson's Treasure Island for "Longman's English Classics" in 1910; contributed to the New International Encyclopedia and is author of Love That Blinds (1906), with Grace Isabel Colbron; Materials and Methods of Fiction (1908); The Theory of the Theatre (1910); The Stranger at the Inn (1913); Studies in Stagecraft (1914); and, with A. E. Thomas, a play, The Big Idea (1914).



[A Manual Of The Art Of Fiction | Materials And Methods Of Fiction | The Theory Of The Theatre]

Monday, December 8, 2008

Caroline Spurgeon

Caroline Spurgeon

Caroline Spurgeon was an English literary critic. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dresden and at King's College London and University College London. From May 1900 she lectured on English Literature in London. She became a member of the staff of Bedford College, London, in 1901. She was an expert on Geoffrey Chaucer and in 1911 wrote a thesis in Paris on Chaucer devant la critique, and in 1929 in London on 500 years of Chaucer criticism and allusion. In 1936 she settled in Tucson, Arizona, where she died, apparently on her 73rd birthday from undisclosed causes. Today Spurgeon is mainly known for one book, the pioneer study on the use of images in William Shakespeare's Work, called Shakespeare's Imagery, and what it tells us from 1935. It has been reprinted several times. In it she analyses the different types of images and motif



[Mysticism In English Literature]

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Alpheus Spring Packard Sr

Alpheus Spring Packard Sr

Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. born: December 23, 1798- died: July 13, 1884 was an American who may be the longest serving faculty member to any American college through his 65 years of dedication to Bowdoin College, "in this particular I acknowledge, without reserve, my allegiance to Brunswick, Maine. " (History of Bowdoin College). Trained as a minister, educator, librarian, acting President of Bowdoin College for the year 1883-4 until his death (between the Chamberlain and Hyde administration). The father of four sons and one daughter by his first wife: Alpheus Spring Packard, Jr. (1839-1905), Bowdoin class of 1861, Civil War surgeon, Entymologist who corresponded with Darwin and a Professor at Brown University with 25 publications, and William Alfred Packard (1830-1909), Bowdoin class of 1851, Charles A. Packard, Bowdoin class of 1848, a 4th son George as well as a daughter, Frances Appleton. Professor Packard was also the son-in-law of Bowdoin College's second President, the Reverend Jesse Appleton through his first marriage to Frances Appleton (1804-1839). Alpheus Spring Packard married Mrs. C.W. McLellan after his wife's death and produced a fifth son, Robert L. Packard, who graduated from Bowdoin in 1868. Professor Packard was also a key figure in the Maine Historical Society from its founding in 1822 until his death in 1884. He was also a prominent member of the Peucinian Society tradition. Alpheus Spring Packard, Sr. had a long standing relationship with Bowdoin College. He graduated from Brunswick, Maine], in 1816. He remained there for the remainder of his life, firstly as a tutor (1819-24), and Professor Ancient Language and Classical Literature (1824-65). During the last two years of his life he was acting president of the college. The Bowdoin College George Mitchell Special Collections department lists thirteen publications. Among them, he edited and was joint author (with Nehemiah Cleaveland) of The History of Bowdoin College, with Biographical Sketches of its Graduates (1882); He also edited Works of the Rev. Jesse Appleton, with a memoir (1836-37); and Xenophon's Memorabilia of Socrates, with English Notes (1839; third edition, 1843). To commemorate Alpheus Spring Packard Srs. 65 years of service to Bowdoin College, the Alpheus Spring Packard Gateway, stands on the parthway of College Avenue as one passed from Coles Tower towards the main quad.



[Lamarck The Founder Of Evolution | Our Common Insects]

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865 18 January 1936) was a British author and poet. Born in Bombay, in British India, he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book (1894) (a collection of stories which includes Rikki-Tikki-Tavi), Kim (1901) (a tale of adventure), many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King (1888); and his poems, including Mandalay (1890), Gunga Din (1890), and If (1910). He is regarded as a major "innovator in the art of the short story"; his children's books are enduring classics of children's literature; and his best works are said to exhibit "a versatile and luminous narrative gift". Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The author Henry James said of him: "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius (as distinct from fine intelligence) that I have ever known. " In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and to date he remains its youngest recipient. Among other honours, he was sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, all of which he declined. Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed according to the political and social climate of the age and the resulting contrasting views about him continued for much of the 20th century. A young George Orwell called him a "prophet of British imperialism". According to critic Douglas Kerr: "He is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."



[Capitaines Courageux | Captains Courageous | El Hombre Que Pudo Reinar | Just So Stories | Kim | The Jungle Book | The Man Who Would Be King | The Phantom Rickshaw And Other Ghost Stories | The Second Jungle Book]

Friday, December 5, 2008

Alexander Francis Chamberlain

Alexander Francis Chamberlain

Alexander Francis Chamberlain (1865 - 1914) was a Canadian anthropologist, born in England. Under the direction of Franz Boas he received the first Ph.D. granted in anthropology in the United States from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. After graduating, he taught at Clark, eventually becoming full professor in 1911. Under the auspices of the British Association, his area of specialty was the Kootenay (British Columbia) Indians. He was well known in anthropology for his bibliographic work, compiling the lists of new books and articles that appeared in the early issues of the American Anthropologist and later the Journal of American Folklore



[The Child And Childhood In Folk Thought]

E T A Hoffmann

E T A Hoffmann (1776-1822)

E T A Hoffmann (1776-1822) title=

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (January 24, 1776 - June 25, 1822), better known by his pen name E.T.A. Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann), was a German Romantic author of fantasy and horror, a jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist. He is the subject and hero of Jacques Offenbach's famous but fictional opera The Tales of Hoffmann, and the author of the novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which the famous ballet The Nutcracker is based. The ballet Coppelia is based on two other stories that Hoffmann wrote. Also Schumann's Kreisleriana is based on one of Hoffmann's characters. Hoffmann's stories were very influential during the 19th century, and he is one of the major authors of the Romantic movement.



[The Serapion Brethren Vol I]

Thursday, December 4, 2008

William Tuckwell

William Tuckwell

William Tuckwell title=

William Tuckwell (1829-1919), who liked to be known as the "radical parson", was a Victorian clergyman well-known on political platforms for his experiments in allotments, his advocacy of land nationalisation, and his enthusiasm for Christian Socialism. He was an advocate of teaching science in the schools. In 1864 he became head master of Taunton School, and it was recorded that his "energy and vitality" had increased the size and quality of the school. Later he became head master of New College School.



[Horace]

Caius Presbyter

Caius Presbyter

Caius, Presbyter of Rome (also known as Gaius) was a Christian author who lived and wrote towards the beginning of the 3rd century. Only fragments of his works are known, which are given in the collection entitled The Ante-Nicene Fathers. However, the Muratorian fragment, an early attempt to establish the canon of the New Testament, is often attributed to Caius and is included in that collection.


Caius's Books:


[Fragments Of Caius]


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Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Heinrich Von Kleist

Heinrich Von Kleist (1777-1811)

Heinrich Von Kleist (1777-1811) title=

Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 1777 - 21 November 1811) was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him.



[Das Kaethchen Von Heilbronn | Der Zerbrochene Krug | Penthesilea | Prinz Friedrich Von Homburg]

Monday, December 1, 2008

John Shaw Billings

John Shaw Billings (1838-1913)

John Shaw Billings (1838-1913)

John Shaw Billings (April 12, 1838 March 11, 1913) was a librarian and surgeon best known as the modernizer of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office of the Army and as the first director of the New York Public Library.



[Tobacco Its History Varieties Culture Manufacture And Commerce]


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