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Poet, novelist and short story writer, Rudyard Kipling was born of English parents in Bombay in 1865. His Departmental Ditties (1886) and Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) brought him world-wide fame. He…
Philip Edward Thomas was a British poet, essayist and novelist. Although he is commonly considered as a War Poet, his career in poetry actually followed his success as an established…
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English Poet and Soldier. His shocking, graphic and realistic poetry surrounding the First World War was heavily influenced by his friend and mentor…
Dame Margaret Isabel Cole DBE was an English Socialist politician and writer. Her poem, The Falling Leaves is one of the first anti-war poems written by a woman and shows…
Alfred Noyes CBE was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright. Noyes was best known for his anti-war ballads.
Sir Herbert Edward Read was an English anarchist, poet and literary critic. He is best known for his books on art, which included volumes on the role of art within…
Dame Emilie Rose Macaulay DBE was an English writer most noted for her award-winning novel, ‘The Towers of Trebizond’. Macaulay worked in the British Propaganda Department during WWI, she was…
Eleanor Farjeon was born in London and is the daughter of popular novelist Benjamin Farjeon. She was an author of children’s stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Farjeon…
Claude Burton was a soldier and poet from WWI.
Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic WWI sonnets. Before the war, Brooke won a scholarship to study at Kings College, Cambridge where he became a…
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, CBE, MC was an English poet, writer and soldier. As one of the leading poets of WWI, his works described the horrors of the trenches and satirised…
Helen Mackay was educated in New York and moved to Paris after her marriage to Archibald Mackay, spending almost fifty years there. She was fluent in both French and Italian,…