Richard Le Gallienne, born Richard Thomas Gallienne in Liverpool on 20 January 1866 and dead at Menton, France, on 15 September 1947, lived long enough to become both a participant in and a chronicler of several literary ages. He began as an ambitious young poet of the late Victorian aesthetic movement, came to public notice amid the bright notoriety of the 1890s, crossed the Atlantic to remake himself for an America…
“Wild oats will get sown some time, and one of the arts of life is to sow them at the right time.”
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George John Cayley was born on 26 January 1826 at Brompton-by-Sawdon in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and died on 11 October 1878 at Hunton in Kent. He belongs to that large and fascinating company of Victorian writers whose lives were more various than their subsequent reputations: a poet, travel writer, barrister by training, political pamphleteer, artist, designer, sports enthusiast, and restless traveller. He ne…
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