George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, was born on 22 November 1819 at South Farm on the Arbury estate near Nuneaton in Warwickshire, England, and died in London on 22 December 1880. She became one of the defining writers of the Victorian age, though she reached that position by a route unusually difficult for a woman of her period. Novelist, translator, editor, critic, essayist, and poet, Eliot brought philos…
“Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow-men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.”
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Love Poets, Pre-Raphaelite Poets, Social Justice Poets, Victorian Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Sorrow, Longing, Despair
Charlotte Richardson, born on 5 March 1775 and dead on 26 September 1825, belongs to that large, increasingly important company of British women poets whose names survived in catalogues more securely than they survived in literary histories. Her career unfolded during a period when poetry was widely read, widely written, and yet unevenly preserved. The great names of Romanticism came to dominate later accounts of the…
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Devotional Poets, Hymn Writers, Romantic Poets, Women Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Wonder, Spirituality
