Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Charles Sangster

Charles Sangster (1822-1893)

Charles Sangster (1822-1893)

Charles Sangster (July 16, 1822 - December 9, 1893) was a Canadian poet who is considered one of "the best of the pre-confederation poets".



[Hesperus]


Tags: elizabeth robins  charles heber clark  augustin calmet  joseph farrell  a tozer  guerra junqueiro  charles frederic goss  herbert feis  frank frankfort moore  

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Sunday, December 27, 2009

James William Brodie

James William Brodie

James William Brodie, OBE (October 7, 1920 April 11, 2009) was a New Zealand geologist, oceanographer and amateur historian and philatelist. Inspired to become a geologist after witnessing the Napier earthquake first-hand while at Napier Boys' High School he joined the Lands and Survey Department in 1937, moving to the DSIR in 1945. In 1949 he got his MSc in Geology from Victoria University College. He was a founding staff member of the Oceanographic Institute in 1954 and led it 1958-1977.



[The Varieties Of Religious Experience | A Pluralistic Universe | Essays In Radical Empiricism | Memories And Studies | Pragmatism | The Meaning Of Truth]


Tags: harry bates  murray campaigner  cassandra willoughby  william henry  van nievelt  frances brooke  albert pike  edna vincent  charles erskine scott  constantin banescu  

Barton Warren Evermann

Barton Warren Evermann

Barton Warren Evermann (October 24, 1853 - September 27, 1932) was an American ichthyologist. He was born in Monroe County, Iowa, and graduated from Indiana University in 1886. For 10 years, he served as teacher and superintendent of schools in Indiana and California. He was professor of biology at the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute from 1886 to 1891. He lectured at Stanford University in 1893-94, at Cornell in 1900-03, and at Yale in 1903-06.


G Warren's Books:


[The Last West And Paolo Virginia]

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) title=

Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) depicted life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom and made the political issues of the 1850s regarding slavery tangible to millions, energizing anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. Upon meeting Stowe, Abraham Lincoln allegedly remarked, "So you're the little lady who started this great war!" The quote is apocryphal; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that "The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change."



[Betty Bright Idea | Lukinverkkoja | Oldtown Fireside Stories | Onkel Tom Htte | Pikku Haltijoita | Pikku Kettuja | Queer Little Folks | Set Tuomon Tupa]

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Emma Lazarus

Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) title=

Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 - November 19, 1887) was an American Jewish poet born in New York City. She is best known for "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in 1912. The sonnet was solicited by William Maxwell Evarts as a donation to an auction, conducted by the "Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty" to raise funds to build the pedestal.



[The Poems Of Emma Lazarus Vol 1 | The Poems Vol 2]

Charles Allston Collins

Charles Allston Collins

Charles Allston Collins (25 January 1828 9 April 1873) was a British painter, writer and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.



[The Compensation House]

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Robert Anthony Welch

Robert Anthony Welch (1899-1985)

Robert Henry Winborne Welch Jr. (December 1, 1899 - January 6, 1985) was an American businessman, political activist and author. He was independently wealthy following his retirement and used that wealth to sponsor anti-communist causes. He co-founded the conservative group the John Birch Society (JBS) in 1958 and tightly controlled it until his death. He became a highly controversial target of attack by liberals, as well as some leading conservatives.



[Robert Rules Of Order]


Tags: a houseman  marquis de sade  giordano bruno  edward egleston  henri grgoire  alvar nunez cabeza de vaca  dorothy whitehill  august oetker  harriet caswell  

Ida M Tarbell

Ida M Tarbell (1857-1944)

Ida Minerva Tarbell (November 5, 1857 - January 6, 1944) was an American teacher, author and journalist. She was known as one of the leading "muckrakers" of the progressive era, work known in modern times as "investigative journalism". She wrote many notable magazine series and biographies. She is best-known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was listed as No. 5 in a 1999 list by the New York Times of the top 100 works of 20th-century American journalism. She began her work on The Standard after her editors at McClure's Magazine called for a story on one of the trusts.



[The Business Of Being A Woman]

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays. Nearly all his writings deal sternly with prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy to make their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege. He was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class, and most of his writings censure that abuse. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society. He became an accomplished orator in the furtherance of its causes, which included gaining equal rights for men and women, alleviating abuses of the working class, rescinding private ownership of productive land, and promoting healthy lifestyles. In 1898, Shaw married Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a fellow Fabian, whom he survived. They settled in Ayot St. Lawrence in a house now called Shaw's Corner. Shaw died there, aged 94, from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize for Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaption of his play of the same name), respectively. Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honours, but accepted it at his wife's behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books to English.



[Major Barbara | The Miraculous Revenge | The Perfect Wagnerite A Commentary On The Niblung Ring]

Monday, December 21, 2009

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Aurelie Sheehan

Aurelie Sheehan

Aurelie Sheehan is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of two novels, History Lesson for Girls and The Anxiety of Everyday Objects, as well as a collection of stories, Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant. She is the director of the creative writing program at the University of Arizona in Tucson.



[Ireland Since Parnell]


Tags: alice hayes  alexander ziegler  dorothy leigh sayers  a houseman  herman bang  harry leon wilson  xavier da cunha  benjamin shambaugh  george bryce  asa gray  

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Emma Helen Blair

Emma Helen Blair

Emma Helen Blair was a United States historian, journalist and editor, whose most notable work was a monumental documentary history of the Philippines. Although born in Wisconsin, she attended high school in Westfield, Massachusetts. In 1871, she returned to Wisconsin and enrolled in Ripon College, where she graduated in 1874. After graduation she taught in public school for two years and then moved to Milwaukee, where she worked as a journalist. In 1892, she began postgraduate work in history, economics and sociology at Wisconsin State University. She later became a librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society. In 1894, Blair resigned from the library staff and became assistant to Dr. Reuben Gold Thwaites. Thwaites was the translator of the 73-volume work Jesuit Relations (1896-1901). This massive work consisted of English translations of the annual reports issued by the superior of the Jesuit missions in New France to the Jesuit overseer in France between the years 1632 and 1673. Blair participated in the editing and annotations. After her work on the Jesuit Relations, she assisted in the editing of the journal of Father Louis Hennepin and of the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition, still working with Thwaites. In 1903, she began work on the project she is most remembered for, the translation and editing of Philippine historical documents that were published in the 55-volume series The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (1903-09). Her collaborator was Dr. James A. Robertson, later librarian at the Philippines Library in Manila. Most of the documents in this enormous collection had not previously been translated into English. Volumes 15 and 16 consist of Antonio de Morga's History of the Philippine Islands From Their Discovery by Magellan in 1521 to the Beginning of the XVII Century, an extremely valuable source on the early history of the islands. Her last work was the translation and editing of documents for The Indian Tribes of the Upper Mississippi Valley and Region of the Great Lakes (2 vols., 1911-12). This work included Nicolas Perrot's Memoir: The Habits and Customs of the American Indians. Blair died in 1911, just days after receiving an advance copy of volume 1 from the bindery. According to her obituary in the Madison Democrat, Miss Blair became by dint of native ability and years of preparatory toil one of the most expert historical editors in the county. She had acquired a complete mastery of the French and Spanish languages. Her literary style was incisive, her historical judgment clear and accurate, and her knowledge of the details of typography quite unusual. In recognition of these qualities Ripon College and the State University honored her with degrees.



[The Philippine Islands 1493 1803 Volume Ii 1521 1569 | The Philippine Islands 1493 1803 | The Philippine Islands 1493 1898 V7 1588 1591 | The Philippine Islands 1493 1898 Volume Viii of 55 1591 1593]


Tags: stanley grauman weinbaum  a hoffmann  alva johnston  daniel lescallier  bjrnstjerne bjrnson  arthur zagat  adam ferguson  davy humphrey  bertha runkle  edmund flagg  

Monday, December 14, 2009

Horace Curzon Plunkett

Horace Curzon Plunkett

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Venusia, December 8, 65 BC Rome, November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.



[The Rural Life Problem Of The United States]

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Jon Bilbao

Jon Bilbao

Juan Manuel Bilbao Azkarreta, also known as Jon Bilbao or Jon Bilbao Azkarreta (31 October 1914 23 May 1994) was a university instructor, a bibliographer, and an activist for Basque nationalism. He compiled the bibliographic section of the Enciclopedia general ilustrada del Pas Vasco (1970), and the monumental Eusko-bibliographia: diccionario de bibliografa vasca (10 volumes, 19701981, with further supplements), which has been described as "one of the most significant reference works on Basque studies".



[Count Lucanor]


Tags: john mcintyre  charles sheldon  friedrich speilhagen  george manville fenn  howard pyle  benjamin disraeli  arno erdman schmidt  ernest myers a  frances elizabeth barrow  howard sutherland  

Catharine Parr Traill

Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899)

Catharine Parr Traill (1802-1899)

Catharine Parr Traill, born Strickland (9 January 1802 - 29 August 1899) was a British-Canadian author who wrote about life as a settler in Canada.


H Traill's Books:


[Coleridge]


Tags: antonio botto  francois guizot  george james  william walter  william martin  ethel watts mumford  everett titsworth tomlinson  frances elizabeth barrow  george forrest browne  

C H Latimer Needham

C H Latimer Needham

Cecil Hugh (Chookie) Latimer-Needham (1900 - d. 5 May 1975) was a British aircraft designer, inventor and aviation author. He is best remembered for the series of aircraft he designed for the Luton Aircraft company and his invention of the Hovercraft skirt for which he was granted a patent. His book, Aircraft Design proved to be an invaluable reference work for Bill Goldfinch and Jack Best during their construction of the Colditz glider.



[Sermons On The Card]


Tags: emil frommel  arthur clarke  henry withrow  ellen emerson white  cale rice  joseph obrien  reynolds brown  aline kilmer  lucy greenidge  david weinberger  fuller victor  

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Dorothy L Sayers

Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957)

Dorothy L Sayers (1893-1957) title=

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciation) (Oxford, 13 June 1893 Witham, 17 December 1957) was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between World War I and World War II that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divina Commedia to be her best work. She is also known for her plays and essays.



[Clouds Of Witness | Op I]

A J M Smith

A J M Smith

Arthur James Marshall Smith (November 8, 1902 November 21, 1980) was a Canadian poet.



[The World Greatest Books Vol Xii | The World Greatest Books Volume 19 | The World Greatest Books Vol I]


Tags: william kirk  gerhart hauptmann  christian frchtegott gellert  augustin calmet  d armando palacio valds  fletcher pratt  anna green  carl kelsey  eduard neuhauser  

Friday, December 11, 2009

Katharine Lee Bates

Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)

Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929)

Katharine Lee Bates (August 12, 1859 March 28, 1929) was an American songwriter. She is remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". She popularized "Mrs. Santa Claus" through her poem Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride (1889).



[Seen And Unseen]


Tags: hjalmar sderberg  benito perez galdos  henry david thoreau  anna laetitia barbauld  william walker atkinson  edward carpenter  virginia brooks  w hofdijk  zhang ni  c montanye  

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Arne Garborg

Arne Garborg

Arne Garborg

Arne Garborg, born Aadne Eivindsson Garborg (25 January 1851, Time - 14 January 1924) was a Norwegian writer. Garborg championed the use of Landsml (now known as Nynorsk, or New Norwegian), as a literary language; he translated the Odyssey into it. He founded the weekly Fedraheim in 1877, in which he urged reforms in many spheres including political, social, religious, agrarian, and linguistic. He was married to Hulda Garborg.



[Kylkertomuksia | La Montarino | Kylakertomuksia]


Tags: georg ebers  d armando palacio valds  david fisher  goldsworthy lowes dickinson  isabelo de los reyes  eino leino  d parry  charles borde  charles ives  gilbert floyd  

Evelyn Whitaker

Evelyn Whitaker

Evelyn Whitaker (1857 - 1903) was a British woman novelist. All her works were published anonymously and the identity of the author of Tip Cat was not revealed until after her death. Her nineteen novels and several shorter stories were issued by multiple publishers in Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States from 1879-1915. Many of these editions were beautifully bound and illustrated. The novels were intended for children and young adults but were also widely read by adults, particularly women. Evelyn Whitaker's writing style was praised as "a study in English for its conciseness, simplicity, and elegance" and Tip Cat was adopted as a text book for German students studying English. Her stories were described as "charming, pure, and wholesome," full of "humor and pathos. " For more than a decade after Evelyn Whitaker's death, her two most popular titles, Miss Toosey's Mission and Laddie, continued to be reissued as gift books. Such little novels with religious or moral themes were given as Sunday School prizes, often as attendance awards. Such books where generally inexpensively made with inferior paper, ink, and illustrations but with attractive bindings. The ornate bindings made up half the production costs.



[Zoe]


Tags: ethel may dell  henry van dyke  elizabeth robins pennell  anne douglas sedgwick  charles major  john cleland  william harrison ainsworth  short stories  emma wolf  

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Lvar Nez Cabeza De Vaca

Lvar Nez Cabeza De Vaca (1490-1557)

Lvar Nez Cabeza De Vaca (1490-1557) title=

lvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narvez expedition. He is remembered as a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of Native Americans, first published in 1542 as La Relacin (The Report), and later known as Naufragios (Shipwrecks).



[Adventures In The Unknown Interior Of America | Naufragios De Alvar Nez Cabeza De Vaca]

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Bruce Sterling

Bruce Sterling (1954-now)

Bruce Sterling (1954-now) title=

Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.



[The Hacker Crackdown | Hacker Crackdown]

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Alfred Lichtenstein

Alfred Lichtenstein

Alfred Lichtenstein was a german expressionist writer. Lichtenstein grew up in Berlin as the son of a manufacturer. He finished a study of law in Erlangen. His was first recognized after publishing poems and short stories in a grotesque style, which recalls a friend of his, Jakob van Hoddis. "Der einzige Trost ist: traurig sein. Wenn die Traurigkeit in Verzweiflung ausartet, soll man grotesk werden. Man soll spaeshalber weiter leben. Soll versuchen, in der Erkenntnis, dass das Dasein aus lauter brutalen, hundsgemeinen Scherzen besteht, Erhebung zu finden. " The only solace: be sad! If sadness becomes despair: be grotesque! Be a clown, trying to find one's amusement by recognizing that existence consists of sheer brutal and shabby strokes. (A. Lichtenstein) Indeed, there were voices, claiming an imitation: while Hoddis created this style, Lichtenstein has enlarged it, was said. Lichtenstein played a little around with that reputation by writing a short story, called "The winner", which describes in a scurill way the by chance made friendship of two young man, wherein one falls victim to the other. By using false names he often joshes real persons of the Berlin 1920th, including himself as Kuno Kohn, a silent shy boy; in "The winner" it is a caricatured - virile van Hoddis, who kills Kuno Kohn at the end of the story. Lichtenstein liked the manner of the French writer Alfred Jarry not only in his ironic writings, like him he rode his bicycle through the town. He did not get old: in 1914 he fell at the front in World War I.



[The Prose Of Alfred Lichtenstein]


Tags: clement king shorter  elizabeth harrison  francis howard  ferdinando fontana  edgar pangborn  caroline lamb  edward howard griggs  eva wilder mcglasson  caius julius caesar  adam oelenschlager  

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Andrea Oreilly

Andrea Oreilly (1961-now)

Andrea O'Reilly Ph.D. (born 1961) is a writer on women's issues and currently an Associate Professor in the School of Women's Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the author and editor of several books on motherhood. O'Reilly is also the founder and director of the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM). She is founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering.



[Alvira]

Friday, November 27, 2009

William Lee Bradley

William Lee Bradley

The Reverend Doctor William Lee Bradley (September 6, 1918-April 29, 2007, born in Oakland, California), was a scholar of comparative religion, ethics, and theology, as well as a philanthropist.



[Junior Achievement]


Tags: charles goddard  justin richards  hermann sudermann  concha espina  william bentley  herman bang  d sheehan  andre lafon  

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Arthur B Reeve

Arthur B Reeve

Arthur B Reeve

Arthur Benjamin Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936) was an American mystery writer. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes," and his Dr Watson-like sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter, in eighteen detective novels. The bulk of Reeve's fame is based on the 82 Craig Kennedy stories, published in Cosmopolitan magazine between 1910 and 1918. These were collected in book form; with the third collection, the short stories were stitched together into pseudo-novels. The 12-volume Craig Kennedy Stories came out in 1918; it reissued Reeve's books-to-date as a matched set. Starting with The Exploits of Elaine (1914), Reeve began authoring screenplays. His film career reached its peak in 1919-20, when his name appeared on seven films, most of them serials, three of them starring Harry Houdini. After thatprobably because of the migration to Hollywood of the film industry, and Reeve's desire to remain in the eastReeve worked more sporadically in film. His career is marked by fiction originally published in newspapers, and a variety of magazines including Country Gentleman, Boys' Life, and Everybody's. Eventually, he was found only in pulps like Detective Story Magazine and Detective Fiction Weekly. In 1927, Reeve entered into a contract (with John S. Lopez) to write a series of film scenarios for notorious millionaire-murderer, Harry K. Thaw, on the subject of fake spiritualists. The deal resulted in a lawsuit when Thaw refused to pay. In late 1928, Reeve declared bankruptcy. In the 1930s, Reeve rejuvenated his career by becoming an anti-rackets crusader. He had a national radio show from July 1930 to March 1931; he published a history of the rackets titled The Golden Age of Crime; and the focus of his Craig Kennedy stories completed the transition from "scientific detective" work to a racket-busting milieu. During his career, Reeve covered many celebrated crime cases for various newspapers, including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, and the trial of Lindbergh baby kidnapper, Bruno Hauptmann. He graduated from Princeton and attended New York Law School. He worked as an editor and journalist before Craig Kennedy propelled him to national fame in 1911. Raised in Brooklyn, he lived most of his professional life at various addresses near the Long Island Sound. In 1932, he moved to Trenton to be nearer his alma mater, Princeton. The most complete biographical and bibliographical information on Reeve is available in the books From Ghouls to Gangsters: The Career of Arthur B. Reeve: Volume 1



[Constance Dunlap | Guy Garrick | The Ear In The Wall | The Exploits Of Elaine | The Film Mystery | The Gold Of The Gods | The Master Mystery | The Romance Of Elaine | The Campaign Grafter | The Dream Doctor | The Invisible Ray | The Mystery Mind | The Panama Plot | The Problem Of The Steel Door | The Silent Bullet | The Treasure Train | The War Terror | The White Slave]


Tags: w h murray  harry leon wilson  mary wollstonecraft  herbert quick  mike brotherton  antonio garcia gutierrez  beatrice clay  pierre ponson du terrail  

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Pauline Johnson

Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)

Pauline Johnson (1861-1913) title=

Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 - 7 March 1913), commonly known as E. Pauline Johnson or just Pauline Johnson, was a Canadian writer and performer popular in the late 19th century. Johnson was notable for her poems and performances that celebrated her First Nations heritage; she also had half English ancestry. One such poem is the frequently anthologized "The Song My Paddle Sings". Her poetry was published in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Johnson was one of a generation of widely read writers who began to define a Canadian literature.



[Flint And Feather | Legends Of Vancouver | The Moccasin Maker | The Shagganappi]

Abel J Jones

Abel J Jones

Abel John Jones (26 May 1878 - 8 May 1949), was a Welsh writer.


B Jones's Books:


[The Peanut Plant]

Monday, November 23, 2009

Anonymous Boy

Anonymous Boy


[Persian Literature Volume 1 Comprising The Shah Nameh The Rubaiyat The Divan And The Gulistan]


Tags: e hoffmann price  gustav meyrink  agnes repplier  christopher morley  albert bushnell hart  concha espina  isaac frederick marcosson  j hammond trumbull  brand whitlock  

Chancellor Olcott

Chancellor Olcott (1858-1932)

Chancellor "Chauncey" Olcott (July 21, 1858 March 18, 1932) was an American stage actor, songwriter and singer. Born in Buffalo, New York, in the early years of his career Olcott sang in minstrel shows and Lillian Russell played a major role in helping make him a Broadway star. Amongst his songwriting accomplishments, Olcott wrote and composed the song "My Wild Irish Rose" for his production of A Romance of Athlone in 1899. Olcott also wrote the lyrics to "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" for his production of The Isle O' Dreams in 1912. He retired to Monte Carlo and died there in 1932. His body was brought home and interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. His life story was told in the 1947 Warner Bros. motion picture My Wild Irish Rose starring Dennis Morgan as Olcott. In 1970, Olcott was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.


H Olcott's Books:


[The Buddhist Catechism | The Life Of Buddha And Its Lessons]


Tags: george young  emil frommel  daniel hack tuke  elliott donnell  george griffith  young allison  ernesto pires  eric lennox  

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Ethel Lilian Voynich

Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960)

Ethel Lilian Voynich (1864-1960)

Ethel Lilian Voynich, ne Boole (May 11, 1864July 27, 1960) was an English novelist and musician, and a supporter of several revolutionary causes. Her father was the famous mathematician George Boole. Her mother was feminist philosopher Mary Everest, niece of George Everest and an author for the early-20th-century periodical Crank. In 1893 she married Wilfrid Michael Voynich, revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile, the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.



[The Gadfly]


Tags: guy wetmore carryl  daniel brinton  william gilder  h mencken  charles baudelaire  elliott odonnell  h roelfsema  frances trego montgomery  edward william murphy