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Charles W. Chesnutt was born in 1858 in a Southern state of America. He had mixed white and black blood and, because of his very fair looks, could have pretended...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in America in 1860. Her father left home when she was very young, leaving her mother penniless – she did not even have enough money...

Clarence Day was born in New York City to a wealthy family in 1874. He attended an elite school and Yale University, before joining the US Navy. However, this magical...

D. H. Lawrence was born in 1885 in an industrial town in England. His father was a miner who couldn’t read or write comfortably, but the son became one of...

Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 and lost both his parents at a very young age; his father ran away and his mother died shortly after. He was brought...

Edith Wharton was an American author, born in New York in 1862. She came from an upper-class background and married young and unhappily, as her husband suffered from terrible depression....

Edward Page Mitchell was born in the USA in 1852. When he was young and travelling by train with his father, Edward put his head out of the window and...

Elizabeth Gaskell was born in 1810. Her mother died not too long afterwards. Her father saw no alternative for Elizabeth except to live with her mother's sister in the north...

Eugène François Vidocq lived a long life from 1775 to 1857. For many of those years, he was a criminal. He had no excuse for committing crime as his parents...

François Coppée was born in Paris in 1842 and quickly became famous for his poetry, drama and novels, which are usually about poverty and patriotism. He was very successful in...