"blue plaque for the Irish poet. Plath was pleased by this fact and considered it a good omen. The northern winter of 1962–1963 was one of the coldest in 100 years; the pipes froze, the children—now two years old and nine months—were often sick, and the house had no telephone. Her depression returned but she completed the rest of her poetry collection which would be published after her death (1965 in the UK, 1966 in the US). Her only novel, ""The Bell Jar,"" was released in January 1963, published under the pen name Victoria Lucas, and was met with critical"
"Emily Lucas Blackall Emily Lucas Blackall (June 30, 1832 - March 28, 1892) was a 19th-century American author and philanthropist. Her first story was ""Superior to Circumstances"", which was followed by ""Melodies from Nature"", and ""Won and Not One"". She also contributed short stories and biographical sketches to various periodicals, and was a frequent contributor to missionary literature. She became identified with the woman's temperance crusade and aided in forming the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Emily Lucas was born in Salem, Indiana, June 30, 1832. The first ten years of her life were spent in her birthplace. Her early school"
"Edward Lucas White Edward Lucas White (May 11, 1866 – March 30, 1934) was an American author and poet. Born in the USA in Bergen, New Jersey, he attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he lived for the rest of his life. From 1915 until his retirement in 1930 he was a teacher at the University School for Boys in Baltimore. He published a number of historical novels, including ""The Unwilling Vestal"" (1918), ""Andivius Hedulio"" (1921) and ""Helen"" (1926), but he is best remembered for fantasy horror stories such as ""The House of the Nightmare"" and ""Lukundoo"" that were"
"Read's ""Forever England: The Life of Rupert Brooke"" as ""a homosexual aesthete"". St. John Lucas St. John Welles Lucas-Lucas, commonly known as St. John Lucas, (18791934) was an English poet known for his anthologies of verse. He was educated at University College, Oxford. He was from 1905 a friend and mentor of Rupert Brooke. Lucas wrote short stories and vignettes for Blackwood's Magazine and Open Window. His ""The Oxford Book of French Verse"" was published by the Clarendon Press in 1907. A selection of his stories was published in book form by William Blackwood and Sons in 1919 under the"
"Hardy said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay. The following comprises works published during her lifetime: Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, ""She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."" Millay was"
"US by Scribner's and Sons, and in Britain by Gollancz. Muna Lee (writer) Muna Lee (January 29, 1895 – April 3, 1965) was an American poet, author, and activist, who first became known and widely published as a lyric poet in the early 20th century. She also was known for her writings that promoted Pan-Americanism and feminism. She translated and published in ""Poetry"" a 1925 landmark anthology of Latin American poets, and continued to translate from poetry in Spanish. A long-term resident of Puerto Rico from 1920 to her death 45 years later, she was an activist in the 1920s"
"Helen Hunt Jackson Helen Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885), was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government. She described the adverse effects of government actions in her history ""A Century of Dishonor"" (1881). Her novel ""Ramona"" (1884) dramatized the federal government's mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California after the Mexican–American War and attracted considerable attention to her cause. Commercially popular, it was estimated to have been reprinted 300 times and most readers liked its romantic and picturesque"
"to make a film For anyone lacking the ability To imagine the body, head in oven, Orphaning children I should give them my mother's words To fill the mouth of their monster, Their Sylvia Suicide Doll </poem> Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then"
"Dave Lucas (poet) Dave Lucas (born September 29, 1980) is an American poet and essayist. He is the current Poet Laureate of the state of Ohio. Lucas was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his B.A. at John Carroll University, M.F.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, and M.A. and Ph.D. in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. Lucas’s first poetry collection, ""Weather"", was published in 2011 by University of Georgia Press and was awarded the 2012 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Shortly after publication, former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove named him"
"Lori Wilde Laurie Blalock Vanzura(born Texas, United States) is an American author of contemporary romance novels, first under the pseudonym Laura Anthony, and now as Lori Wilde. Laurie Blalock was born in Texas, United States. She wrote her first short story at age eight, and finished her first novel four years later. At sixteen, she submitted a story to Alfred Hitchcock Magazine. Although it was rejected, she received a handwritten note telling her to keep writing. She continued to write, finishing 60 short stories over the next 10 years, persisting even while attending nursing school. All of her short stories"
"Louise Bogan Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and became the regular poetry reviewer for ""The New Yorker"". ""Dictionary of Literary Biography"" contributor Brett C. Millier described her as ""one of the finest lyric poets America has produced."" He said, ""the fact that she was a woman and that she defended formal, lyric poetry in an age of expansive experimentation made"
"St. John Lucas St. John Welles Lucas-Lucas, commonly known as St. John Lucas, (18791934) was an English poet known for his anthologies of verse. He was educated at University College, Oxford. He was from 1905 a friend and mentor of Rupert Brooke. Lucas wrote short stories and vignettes for Blackwood's Magazine and Open Window. His ""The Oxford Book of French Verse"" was published by the Clarendon Press in 1907. A selection of his stories was published in book form by William Blackwood and Sons in 1919 under the title ""Saints, Sinners, and the Usual People"". He is described in Mike"
"Frances Sargent Osgood Frances Sargent Osgood (""née"" Locke) (June 18, 1811 – May 12, 1850) was an American poet and one of the most popular women writers during her time. Nicknamed ""Fanny"", she was also famous for her exchange of romantic poems with Edgar Allan Poe. Frances Sargent Locke was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph Locke, a wealthy merchant, and his second wife, Mary Ingersoll Foster. Her father's first wife, Martha Ingersoll, was the sister of Mary, his second wife. Mary was also the widow of Benjamin Foster, by whom she had two children: William Vincent Foster and Anna"
"published ""Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood"". Edgar Allan Poe published the poem ""Ulalume"". In 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray's novel, ""Vanity Fair"" was published. Elizabeth Gaskell published ""Mary Barton"". Anne Brontë published ""The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"". Grant Allen was born. Edgar Allan Poe published a book-length essay he called a prose poem: """". In 1849, both Anne Brontë and Edgar Allan Poe died. Poe's poems ""Annabel Lee"" and ""The Bells"" were published posthumously. Dostoyevski published ""Netochka Nezvanova"". The poet Emma Lazarus was born 22 July in New York City. Between 1849 and 1861, Charles Dickens' prolific creative"
"Elizabeth Akers Allen Elizabeth Akers Allen (pen name, Florence Percy; October 9, 1832 – August 7, 1911), was an American poet and journalist. Her early poems appeared over the signature of ""Florence Percy"", and many of them were first published in the ""Portland Transcript"". She came to Portland, Maine in 1855, and a volume of her fugitive poems appeared in that city just before her marriage to Paul Akers, the sculptor, whom she accompanied to Italy, and buried there. For several years, she was on the editorial staff of the ""Portland Advertiser"". She wrote for most of the leading magazines,"
"Virginia Hamilton Adair Virginia Hamilton Adair (February 28, 1913, New York City – September 16, 2004, Claremont, California) was an American poet who became famous later in life with the 1996 publication of ""Ants on the Melon"". Mary Virginia Hamilton was born in the Bronx and raised in Montclair, New Jersey. She attended Montclair Kimberley Academy, graduating in the class of 1929. She disliked the name ""Mary"" and dropped it as a young adult. Adair composed her first poem at the age of two; since then, she has written over a thousand poems. Exposed to poetry as a young child"
"Emily Chubbuck Emily Chubbuck (August 23, 1817 – June 1, 1854) was an American poet who wrote under the pseudonym Fanny Forester. Emily Chubbuck was born to poor parents in Eaton, New York on August 23, 1817. In 1834 she became a teacher and joined a Baptist church. In 1840 she entered the Utica female seminary and wrote her first book, ""Charles Linn"", in 1841. She developed a literary friendship with Nathaniel Parker Willis, who she described as the foster-father of her intellect. Willis and Chubbuck first corresponded in June 1844 after her failed attempt at writing children's stories. She"
"Emily Chubbuck Emily Chubbuck (August 23, 1817 – June 1, 1854) was an American poet who wrote under the pseudonym Fanny Forester. Emily Chubbuck was born to poor parents in Eaton, New York on August 23, 1817. In 1834 she became a teacher and joined a Baptist church. In 1840 she entered the Utica female seminary and wrote her first book, ""Charles Linn"", in 1841. She developed a literary friendship with Nathaniel Parker Willis, who she described as the foster-father of her intellect. Willis and Chubbuck first corresponded in June 1844 after her failed attempt at writing children's stories. She"
"Judith Lomax Judith Lomax (September 25, 1774 – January 19, 1828) was an American poet and religious writer. She was the first woman in Virginia to publish a volume of poetry entirely her own. Little is known of Lomax's early life save that she was a member of a prominent Virginia family, the daughter of Thomas and Anne Lomax of Portobago, and lived on her father's plantation until his death in 1816. Her mother was a member of the prominent Tayloe family. Judith suffered a financial reverse in 1815 which led to her estrangement from a number of her relatives."
"Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956, and they lived together in the United States and then in England. They had two children, Frieda and Nicholas, before separating in 1962. Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, and was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She died by suicide in"
"Rosa Vertner Jeffrey Rosa Vertner Griffith Johnson Jeffrey (1828–1894) was an American poet and novelist from the U.S. state of Mississippi. She was the first southern woman whose literary work attracted attention throughout the US. Rosa Vertner Griffith was born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1828. Her father, John Griffith (d. 1853), was a writer of prose and verse. Many of his Indian stories were published in the first-class ""Annuals"", and several of them were complimented in England, including ""The Fawn's Leap,"" and ""Indian Bride"". His brother, William T. Griffith, was an eminent lawyer in Mississippi. Rosa's grandfather, Rev. Dr. James"
"E. V. Lucas Edward Verrall Lucas, CH (11/12 June 1868 – 26 June 1938) was an English humorist, essayist, playwright, biographer, publisher, poet, novelist, short story writer and editor. Born to a Quaker family on the fringes of London, Lucas began work at the age of sixteen, apprenticed to a bookseller. After that he turned to journalism, and worked on a local paper in Brighton and then on a London evening paper. He was commissioned to write a biography of Bernard Barton, the Quaker poet. This led to further commissions, including the editing of the works of Charles Lamb. Lucas"
"until 1878. She died in New Orleans in 1880. Her writings consist of numerous sketches, short stories, and poems, principally the latter, all of which appeared in the daily papers of New Orleans under the pseudonym of “Salvia Dale.” Her works have never been collected and published in book form. Her entry in ""Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography"" rates “Motherhood” and “Twilight Shadows” the best of her poems. Alice Dalsheimer Alice Dalsheimer (December 1, 1845 – January 15, 1880) was an American poet. She published in local newspapers under the pseudonym of Salvia Dale. She was born Alice Solomon in"
"George Eliot Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She wrote seven novels, including ""Adam Bede"" (1859), ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), ""Silas Marner"" (1861), ""Romola"" (1862–63), ""Middlemarch"" (1871–72), and ""Daniel Deronda"" (1876), most of which are set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight. Although female authors were published under their own names during her lifetime, she wanted to escape the stereotype"
"and Other Poems"", was published in 1881. Her novel, ""Marsh"", was brought out in 1884. Among her literary productions are several dramas. She died in 1894 in Lexington. Rosa Vertner Jeffrey Rosa Vertner Griffith Johnson Jeffrey (1828–1894) was an American poet and novelist from the U.S. state of Mississippi. She was the first southern woman whose literary work attracted attention throughout the US. Rosa Vertner Griffith was born in Natchez, Mississippi, in 1828. Her father, John Griffith (d. 1853), was a writer of prose and verse. Many of his Indian stories were published in the first-class ""Annuals"", and several of"
"Directed by Priestly Morrison."" Olive Higgins Prouty Olive Higgins Prouty (10 January 1882 – 24 March 1974) was an American novelist and poet, best known for her 1922 novel ""Stella Dallas"" and her pioneering consideration of psychotherapy in her 1941 novel ""Now, Voyager"". Olive Higgins, who was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts, was a 1904 graduate of Smith College and married Louis Prouty in 1907, at which time the couple moved to Brookline, Massachusetts in 1908. In 1894 Prouty was reported to have suffered from a nervous breakdown that lasted nearly two years according to the Clark University Archives"
"Anna Wickham Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper (1883–1947), an English/Australian poet who was a pioneer of modernist poetry, and one of the most important female poets writing during the first half of the twentieth century. She was friend to other important writers of the time, such as DH Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Katherine Mansfield and Dylan Thomas. She lived a transnational, unconventional life, moving between Australia, England and France. She is remembered as a modernist figure and feminist writer, although one who did not command sustained critical attention in her lifetime, although her poetry did"
"and Mary in Williamsburg. Judith Lomax Judith Lomax (September 25, 1774 – January 19, 1828) was an American poet and religious writer. She was the first woman in Virginia to publish a volume of poetry entirely her own. Little is known of Lomax's early life save that she was a member of a prominent Virginia family, the daughter of Thomas and Anne Lomax of Portobago, and lived on her father's plantation until his death in 1816. Her mother was a member of the prominent Tayloe family. Judith suffered a financial reverse in 1815 which led to her estrangement from a"
"and of Victorian diction. Both steered American poetry toward greater density, difficulty, and opacity, with an emphasis on techniques such as fragmentation, ellipsis, allusion, juxtaposition, ironic and shifting personae, and mythic parallelism. Pound, in particular, opened up American poetry to diverse influences, including the traditional poetries of China and Japan. Numerous other poets made important contributions at this revolutionary juncture, including Gertrude Stein (1874–1946), Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), William Carlos Williams (1883–1963), Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (1886–1961), Marianne Moore (1887–1972), E. E. Cummings (1894–1962), and Hart Crane (1899–1932). The cerebral and skeptical Romantic Stevens helped revive the philosophical lyric, and Williams was"
"Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, ""She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."" Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, to Cora Lounella Buzelle, a nurse, and Henry Tolman Millay, a schoolteacher who would later become a superintendent of schools. Her middle"
"recreation. She died March 21, 1896, in Dallas, Texas, and was buried at Oakland Cemetery. Elizabeth Otis Dannelly Elizabeth Otis Dannelly (June 13, 1838 – March 21, 1896) was an American Southern poet. Born in Georgia, she wrote, ""Cactus, or Thorns and Blossoms"" and ""Wayside Flowers"". Elizabeth Otis Marshall was born in Monticello, Georgia, June 13, 1838. Her father, Jackson Marshall, was a native of Augusta, Georgia. On her mother's side, she descended from an old Huguenot family named Grinnell. Her grandfather, Peter Grinnell, was closely connected with Henry Grinnell, of Arctic expedition fame, and was also a first cousin"
"Poland, Brazil and Norway. Laura Riding Laura Riding Jackson (January 16, 1901 – September 2, 1991) was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was born Laura Reichenthal in New York to a family of Austrian Jewish immigrants, and educated at Cornell University, where she began to write poetry, publishing first (1923–26) under the name Laura Riding Gottschalk. She became associated with the Fugitives through Allen Tate, and they published her poems in ""The Fugitive"" magazine. Her first marriage, to historian Louis R. Gottschalk (1899–1975), ended in divorce in 1925, at the end of which year"
"kinds of garlic and everlasting flowers to sell at farmers’ markets. During the last thirty years of her life, she continued to write but published little after 1975. She died on October 5, 2007, aged 77, after a short illness. The local community commemorated her in its memorial site. Stephen Vincent, poet, editor, and artist, is the executor of her literary estate. Laura Ulewicz Laura Ulewicz (May 18, 1930 – October 5, 2007) was an American poet. Born in Detroit, Michigan to Polish-American auto workers with strong union ties, she lived in Chicago and New York before moving to San"