Alan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London, on 18 January 1882, into a household where education, discipline, and intellectual curiosity were daily realities. He was the youngest of three sons of John Vine Milne and Sarah Marie Heginbotham Milne. His father was the headmaster of Henley House School, a small independent school in Kilburn, and the school stood at the center of family life. The young Alan was educ…
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
Neighbourhood:
Children's Verse, Light Verse Poets
Emotional landscape: Joy, Wonder, Tenderness
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who became immortal under the name Lewis Carroll, was born on 27 January 1832 at Daresbury, Cheshire, England, and died on 14 January 1898 at Guildford, Surrey. He was a Victorian clergyman, Oxford mathematician, logician, lecturer, photographer, inventor, letter writer, satirist, and author of some of the most celebrated imaginative literature in the English language. Yet the word “author”…
“Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: then stop.”
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Children's Verse, Light Verse Poets, Victorian Poets
Emotional landscape: Irony, Joy, Wonder
