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Vera Mary Brittain was an English writer, feminist and pacifist. ‘The Dark Tide’ (1923), her first published novel, was not overly successful. However, in 1933 Brittain released, ‘Testament of Youth’,…
Winifred Mabel (Mary) Letts was an English born writer, living in Ireland. She wrote novels, plays and poetry. Letts trained as a masseuse and worked at army camps in Manchester…
Dorothy Parker born on the 22nd August 1893, in New Jersey, died of a heart attack on the 7th June 1967, in New York City. She was an American poet,…
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, poet, playwright and novelist, was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin, and died on November 30, 1900, in penury and exile in Paris. Josephine…
Edmund Blunden was born in London and was the oldest of nine siblings. In August 1915, Blunden was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Sussex Regiment and he…
Cyril Henry Morton Horne was born in Dublin. He was an Irish writer and musical comedy performer up until he joined the War in 1915. Horne was tragically killed at…
William Blake was a poet, painter and printmaker from London. Although he was largely unrecognised during his lifetime, he is now considered a seminal figure of both the Romantic Poets…
May Wedderburn Cannan was the second of three daughters of the Dean of Trinity College Oxford, Charles Cannan. At the age 18 in 1911, Cannan joined the voluntary Aid Detachment,…
Walter ‘Walt’ Whitman was an American journalist, essayist and poet. Commonly known as ‘the father of free verse’, Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon. Influenced…
Born in 1887 in Kirkwood, Missouri, Marianne Craig Moore was a poet, essayist and translator. Her Selected Poems (1935) was published with an introduction by T. S. Eliot. She won…
