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Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar , a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her ...
- Sylvia Plath Effect
Sylvia Plath. The Sylvia Plath effect is the phenomenon that...
- Frieda Hughes
Frieda Rebecca Hughes (born 1 April 1960) is an...
- The Bell Jar
The Bell Jar is the only novel written by the American...
- Aurelia Plath
Sylvia Plath made reference to her maternal grandmother by...
- Otto Plath
Otto Emil Plath (April 13, 1885 – November 5, 1940) was a...
- Assia Wevill
Assia Esther Wevill (née Gutmann; 15 May 1927 – 23 March...
- McLean Hospital
McLean Hospital (/ m ə k ˈ l eɪ n /) (formerly known as...
- Ariel (Poetry Collection)
Ariel was the second book of Sylvia Plath's poetry to be...
- Sylvia Plath Effect
A Harvest of Death is the title of a photograph taken by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, sometime between July 4 and 7, 1863. It shows the bodies of soldiers killed at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, stretched out over part of the battlefield. It is the result of a singular photographic project by entrepreneur Mathew Brady, who ...
Yard boy on the estate of Liam Metarey himself the son of a low-born Scot robber-baron who built “Aberdeen West” on the brutally-got spoils of coal mining and timber cutting Corey at 16 and 17 ...
Signature. Freda Josephine Baker ( née McDonald; June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975), naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics ...
Edward Dickens. Signature. Charles John Huffam Dickens ( / ˈdɪkɪnz /; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. [1]
- Novelist
- 9 June 1870 (aged 58), Higham, Kent, England
- Charles John Huffam Dickens, 7 February 1812, Portsmouth, England
- Ellen Ternan (1857–1870, his death)
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde [a] (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his ...
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist and essayist. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature ." [3] His novels include The Adventures of Tom ...
