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Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault (1628–1703) was a French writer and member of the Académie Française, best known for helping establish the literary fairy tale as a popular genre.

Henrik Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and poet widely regarded as one of the founders of modern drama. Born in 1828 in the town of Skien, he grew up in a family that experienced financial hardship after his father’s business failed. As a young man, he worked as an apprentice pharmacist while writing poetry and… Read More

Elizabeth Von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim was an English-born novelist best known for her witty, insightful novels about society, relationships, and women’s lives. Born Mary Annette Beauchamp in Australia in 1866, she grew up in England and later married a German aristocrat, becoming Countess von Arnim-Schlagenthin. Throughout her career, von Arnim wrote many popular novels, including The Enchanted… Read More

Hoffman E.T.A.

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist.[1][2][3] He is the author of the novella The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, on which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky‘s ballet The Nutcracker is based. In addition, his stories form the basis of Jacques Offenbach‘s opera The Tales of Hoffmann,… Read More

Austen-Leigh James Edward

James Austen-Leigh (1798-1874) was the son of Jane Austen’s eldest brother, the Reverend James Austen. He published A Memoir of Jane Austen late in life in 1869, with a second edition in 1871. Drawing upon the recollections of other family members, his book became the primary source of information about ‘Aunt Jane’s life, as the majority of… Read More

Aurelius Marcus

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was a member of the Nerva–Antonine dynasty, the last of the rulers later known as the Five Good Emperors and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace, calm,… Read More

Blackwood Algernon

Algernon Henry Blackwood CBE (14 March 1869 – 10 December 1951) was a British author, journalist, paranormal investigator and broadcaster. Blackwood wrote in a number of genres, including children’s fiction, but was best known as a writer of weird tales, horror, and ghost stories. The British press dubbed him ‘The Ghost Man’, and H.P. Lovecraft… Read More

Hemingway Ernest

Ernest Miller Hemingway 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. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he… Read More

Machen Arthur

Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and journalist best known for his occult, mystical, and supernatural fiction, and greatly admired in his own day by Oscar Wilde and H.P. Lovecraft.