Poets Timeline
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Bio Anna Letitia Waring was born at Plas-y-Velin, Neath, on April 19, 1823. She left her parents' faith, the Society of Friends, for Anglicanism, into which she was baptised on May 15, 1842. Her life-long avocations were the study of the Bible (in self-taught Hebrew), the writing of hymns, a…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Educator (his tenure as Assistant Master of Eton College lasted from 1845 to 1872) and author of A Guide to Modern British History (New York: Holt, 1880-82), William Johnson became William Johnson Cory after his retirement. A brief biography appears in the third edition of Ionica, his…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Adams, Mary Electa. From Distant Shores: Poems. [Toronto: 1898]. Unpaginated. Internet Archive Reid, John G. "Adams, Mary Electa." Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Volume XII. Toronto: University of Toronto and Laval University, 2000.Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born in 1823, William Brighty Rands published several volumes of children's literature anonymously and contribuetd to periodicals under various pseudonyms, especially Matthew Browne, Henry Holbeach, and T. Talker. He worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and died in 1882. His…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born on September 4, 1824, at Mount Healthy, close to Cincinnati, Ohio, Phoebe Cary and her older sister Alice co-published poems in 1849 and then Phoebe went on to bring out three volumes of her own: Poems and Parodies (1854) Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love (1868) Hymns for all…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio William Allingham, born at Ballyshannon, published and edited verse from 1850 to his death in London on November 18, 1889. He worked for the customs service in London until his retirement in 1870, when he became sub-editor of Fraser's Magazine, then editor from 1874 to 1879. He married…Nationality IrishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio An often-published antiquarian, novelist, and travel writer, Baring-Gould was born in Exeter and educated at Clare College, Cambridge. In 1864 he became curate of Horbury, Yorkshire, but moved to become rector of Lew Trenchard, Devon, in 1881, when he inherited his family estate there,…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Frances Ellen Watkins was born September 25, 1825, in Baltimore, Maryland. After receiving an education at her uncle's school, and working in a book store, she turned to publishing. A book of poetry entitled Forest leaves came out in 1845, no copy of which has survived. Five years later…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement African AmericanLiterary Period American Renaissance
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Bio Thomas Henry Huxley, the great Victorian scientist, "Darwin's bulldog," was born in Ealing on May 4, 1825. Despite having only two years of formal schooling, he obtained his M.B. at London University in 1845. This led to a posting as a naval surgeon with H.M.S. Rattlesnake on a surveying…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Henrietta (Hettie) Anne Heathorn, the daughter of a brewer, met the scientist Thomas Huxley in Sydney, Australia, in 1847, during his term aboard the HMS Rattlesnake. Huxley returned to England in 1850, unhappily leaving his fiancée behind in Sydney. Their loving correspondence survives…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, on July 25, 1825, John Askham had almost no formal education. After labouring as a child in his father's shoe-making shop, Askham earned his living as a shoe-maker. He taught himself to read and write and published his verses in local newspapers…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Stephen Foster was born July 4, 1826, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was educated at Allegheny Academy, Athens Academy, and Jefferson College. He became a full-time musician in 1850, working for and with Christy's Minstrels, Campbell Minstrels, and the New Orleans Serenaders. His songs…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period American Renaissance -
Bio Robert Lowry, born March 12, 1826, graduated in 1854 from the University of Lewisburg (Bucknell University) and became a baptist minister in West Chester, Pennsylvania, New York City, and Brooklyn before rejoining Lewisburg in 1869 as a faculty member and then its chancellor. From 1875…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio Born the daughter of a nonconformist minister in Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, Dinah Mulock took her mother and siblings to London and supported them by writing novels, the most successful of which, John Halifax, Gentleman (1856), enabled her eventually to build Corner House in…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Tubb, Benjamin Robert. "The Music of Septimus Winner". Public Domain Music. 12 Feb 2009. Public Domain Music. 4 Aug 2009 . Wepman, Dennis. "Winner, Septimus." American National Biography Online. American Council of Learned Societies: Oxford University Press, 2000. Winner,…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio James McIntyre (1827-1906), an emigrant from Scotland, settled in Ontario in 1841. He founded a furniture factory and store in Ingersoll, Ontario, and used his skills at versifying to advertise his wares and to promote local agriculture, including cheese-making. He published two books of…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Bullen, J. B. "Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement Pre-RaphaeliteLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Rosanna Eleanor Mullins was born in Montreal and educated at the Convent of the Congregation of Notre Dame. She contributed poems, serialized novels, and short stories to the Literary Garland (1847-51) and other journals. She married in 1851 Dr. Jean-Lukin Leprohon and, of their 13…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
