Poets Timeline
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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
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Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets A Bird came down the Walk (328) A Drop fell on the Apple Tree (794) A lane of Yellow led the eye (1650) A Man may make a Remark (952) Because I could not stop for Death (712) Besides the Autumn poets sing (131…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio Born in about 1830 in Edinburgh of Irish parents, William McGonagall earned his living as a hand-loom weaver. He married Jean King on July 11, 1846. He heard, and obeyed, a call to write poetry in June 1877 and brought out a collection the next year, including a poem on the great Tay…Nationality ScottishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Helen Fiske, born in Amherst, Mass., took her two last names from her husbands. She married Edward Bissell Hunt first, was widowed young, in 1865, and shortly afterwards had lost both sons from that marriage as well. Ten years later, she married a quaker, William Sharpless Jackson and…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio James Clerk Maxwell was born on Nov. 13, 1831, at 14 India St., Edinburgh, to John Clerk Maxwell and Frances Cay. The family home to which he would at last retire was at Glenlair, but after his mother's death young James was sent to Edinburgh for schooling at the Edinburgh Academy, from…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian
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Bio Isa Craig, born Oct. 17, 1831, in Edinburgh, was largely self-educated in literature. By 1853, she worked at and contributed poems to the newspaper the Scotchman. Her first book, Poems by Isa, came out in 1856. She left Scotland for London in 1857, where she was employed as secretary for…Nationality ScottishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio David Mills was born in Palmyra, Orford Township, in southwestern Ontario, on March 18, 1831, the child of Nathaniel Mills, one of the first settlers in the area, whose farm was on lot 70, on Talbot Road (now King's highway 3), just north of Lake Erie and west of Clearville. After being…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Charles Stuart Calverley, born on December 22, 1831, at Martley, Worcestershire, was educated at Marlborough College, Harrow, Oxford, and Cambridge, and was elected a fellow of Christ's College and appointed a lecturer in Classics in 1857. His Verses and Translations (1862), and later…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Born March 17, 1832, in Percy, Northumberland, Joseph Skipsey was a colliery worker at seven years of age. He made himself educated, publishing verse in local newspapers until he was gradually able to leave harsh labour behind him. He earned a living as caretaker to schools and colleges…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll (his pseudonym), was born in 1832 and educated at Rugby College and Christ Church, Oxford. Although a lecturer in mathematics there from 1855, Dodgson achieved international fame as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1866…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Henry Clay Work, born on October 1, 1832, grew up in Middletown, Connecticut, the son of an active opponent of slavery, who helped thousands of slaves to escape north. Work took employment as a printer in Chicago in 1854, but in 1853, 1876-77, and 1882-83, Work wrote 75 songs, at first…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio Adam Lindsay Gordon letters: State Library of New South Wales, copies at Royal Historical Society of Victoria. Gordon, Adam Lindsay. Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes. 1870. --Poems. Ed. Robert A. Thompson. London and Melbourne: A. H. Massina, 1920. --Sea Spray and Smoke Drift.…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Colonial
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Bio MacCarthy, Fiona. "Morris, William (1834–1896)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. Oct. 2009.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement Pre-RaphaeliteLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the American journalist, novelist and humorist born and raised in Missouri, Mark Twain is best known for his novels, The Prince and the Pauper (1882), A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and The…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Realistic -
Bio Baker, William. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 184: Nineteenth-Century British Book-Collectors and Bibliographers. Ed. William Baker and Kenneth Womack. The Gale Group, 1997: 138-151. Contemporary Authors Online. The Gale Group, 2001.Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Hadgraft, Cecil. "Stephens, James Brunton (1835–1902)." Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Stephens, James Brunton. The Poetical Works of Brunton Stephens. Sydney: University of Sydney Library, 2001. --. Convict…Nationality AustralianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio Born on January 4, 1835, in Coulston, Surrey, Lyall received his education at Eton and Haileybury College. He joined the Indian civil service at Bulandshahr in the Doab in 1856 and served in many capacities until his retirement in 1887. After being honoured for fighting in the Mutiny in…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Edwardian -
Bio John Byrne Leicester Warren, Lord De Tabley, was a literary scholar, a numismatist, and a botanist. Born April 26, 1835, Warren was educated at Eton College and then at Christ Church, Oxford, from which he graduated B.A. in 1859 and MA one year later. Between 1659 and his death in 1895,…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Victorian -
Bio Celia Laighton was born June 29, 1835, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and grew up on the Isles of Shoals. In 1851 she and Levi Thaxter married, came to live in Newtonville, Massachusetts, by 1856, and had several children. When she discovered that the editor of The Atlantic Monthly had…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio British-born novelist, children's playwright, and poet, educated in Point Levy, Quebec, and Sarnia, Ontario, where she and her sisters operated a school for ladies, Walker published poetry widely in newspapers on both sides of the border before collecting them in Leaves from the…Literary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
