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Reverend Alexander Whyte (1836-1921) was a Scottish divine. He was born at Kirriemuir in Forfarshire and educated at the University of Aberdeen and at New College, Edinburgh. He entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland and after serving as colleague in Free St. John's, Glasgow (1866-1870), removed to Edinburgh as colleague and successor to Dr. RS Candlish at Free St Georges. In 1909 he succeeded Dr. Marcus Dods as principal, and pro...

Reverend Alexander Whyte (1836-1921) was a Scottish divine. He was born at Kirriemuir in Forfarshire and educated at the University of Aberdeen and at New College, Edinburgh. He entered the ministry of the Free Church of Scotland and after serving as colleague in Free St. John's, Glasgow (1866-1870), removed to Edinburgh as colleague and successor to Dr. RS Candlish at Free St Georges. In 1909 he succeeded Dr. Marcus Dods as principal, and pro...

George Grossmith (1847-1912) was an English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer. He is best remembered for creating a series of characters in the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, including Sir Joseph Porter, in H. M.S. Pinafore, the Major-General in The Pirates of Penzance and Ko-Ko in The Mikado, and for writing the comic 1892 novel (with his brother Weedon), Diary of a Nobody. He was also famous in his day for performing his o...

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) was an English author and intellectual, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822). In 1821, he went to London to dispose of some translations from German authors, but was persuaded first to write and publish an account of his opium experiences, which that year appeared in the London Magazine. This new sensation eclipsed Lamb's Essays of Elia, which were then appearing in the same periodi...

Edith Nesbit (married name Edith Bland) (1858-1924) was an English author and poet whose children's works were published under the androgynous name of E. Nesbit. She wrote or collaborated on over 60 books of fiction for children, several of which have been adapted for film and television. She started a new genre of magical adventures arising from everyday settings and has been much imitated. She was also a political activist and co-founded the...

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) est un poete, romancier, nouvelliste, critique litteraire, dramaturge et editeur americain, ainsi que l'une des principales figures du romantisme americain. Connu surtout pour ses contes - genre dont la brievete lui permet de mettre en valeur sa theorie de l'effet, suivant laquelle tous les elements du texte doivent concourir a la realisation d'un effet unique -, il a donne a la nouvelle ses lettres de noblesse et e...

Monsieur L'Abbat was a French author and a Fencing Master at the Academy of Toulouse in France in the late seventeenth century. He was the author of the first comprehensive study of the art of fencing entitled Questions Sur L'Art En Fait D'Armes, which was first translated into English by Andrew Mahon in 1734 and called, The Art of Fencing, or, The Use of the Small Sword.

Henry Fielding was an English novelist and dramatist known for his rich earthy humour and satirical prowess, and as the author of the popular novel Tom Jones. He was sincerely designed to promote the cause of virtue, and to expose some of the most glaring evils, as well public as private, which then infested the country.

Procopius of Caesarea (c. 500-c. 565) was a prominent Eastern Roman scholar of the family Procopius. He is commonly held to be the last major ancient historian. The writings of Procopius are the primary source of information for the rule of the Roman emperor Justinian. He was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought by Justinian I, a panegyric on Justinian's public works throughout the empire, and a book known as The Secret Hi...

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) était un écrivain écossais, célèbre pour ses romans mettant en scène le détective Sherlock Holmes, considérés comme une innovation majeure du roman policier. Cet écrivain prolifique a également travaillé dans le domaine de la science-fiction, des romans historiques, des pièces de théâtre et de la poésie. Arthur Conan Doyle est né à Edimbourg (Ecosse). Il étudie la médecine de 1876 à 1881 après être s...

Sir Robert Filmer (1588-1653) was an English political theorist. His best known work, Patriarcha, or, The Natural Power of Kings, published in 1680, was a defense of the divine right of kings to rule. His theory is founded upon the statement that the government of a family by the father is the true origin and model of all government. Filmer was a severe critic of democracy. In his opinion, democracy of ancient Athens was in fact a "justice-tra...

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William Elliot Griffis, D.D., L.H. D. (1843-1928) was an American orientalist, author and Congregational preacher. In September 1870 Griffis was invited to Japan for the purpose of organizing schools along Western lines. He prepared the New Japan Series of reading and spelling books and primers for Japanese students in the English language. He published 18 books on Japan and Japanese culture, wrote several hundred articles, and made numerous p...

Alfred Assollant, parfois écrit Assolant, né à Aubusson (Creuse) le 20 mars 1827 et mort à Paris le 3 mars 1886, était un romancier Français, auteur de romans pour la jeunesse. Licencié ès Lettres, après avoir enseigné l'histoire, il s'attire les foudres de son recteur, pour ses opinions républicaines. Il entreprend alors un voyage aux Etats-Unis, puis réunit ses souvenirs dans les Scènes de la Vie des Etats-Unis en 1858. Farouche opposant de ...

Alfred Russel Wallace OM, FRS (1823-1913) was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He did extensive fieldwork first in the Amazon River basin, and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace line dividing the fauna of Australia from that of Asia. He is best known for independently proposing a theory of natural selection which prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own more developed and r...

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) fut un auteur et poète Danois, célèbre pour ses nouvelles et ses contes de fées. Il était le fils d'un jeune cordonnier malade et de son épouse plus âgée. La famille vivait dans une petite pièce. Hans Christian montra une imagination précoce, laquelle fut encouragée par l'indulgence de ses parents et la superstition de sa mère. Son père mourut en 1816 et il fut entièrement livré à lui-même. Il cessa d'aller ...

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) fut un auteur et poète Danois, célèbre pour ses nouvelles et ses contes de fées. Il était le fils d'un jeune cordonnier malade et de son épouse plus âgée. La famille vivait dans une petite pièce. Hans Christian montra une imagination précoce, laquelle fut encouragée par l'indulgence de ses parents et la superstition de sa mère. Son père mourut en 1816 et il fut entièrement livré à lui-même. Il cessa d'aller ...

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was a prolific and multi-talented American writer. Amongst her works are passionate, fiery novels, moralistic and wholesome stories for children, philosophical essays and letters. Her overwhelming success however, was with Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), a semiautobiographical account of her childhood years with her three sisters in Concord, Massachusetts. Part Two, or Part Second, also known as Goo...

Dinah Maria Craik, née Dinah Maria Mulock, also often credited as Miss Mulock (1826-1887) was an English novelist and poet. She was determined to obtain a livelihood by her pen, and, beginning with fiction for children, advanced steadily until placed in the front rank of the women novelists of her day. She is best known for the novel John Halifax, Gentleman (1857). She followed this with A Life for a Life (1859), which she considered to be the...

Lucy Fitch Perkins (1865-1937) was an American children's book author and illustrator, famous for writing the "Twins" series of books. Her books include The Dutch Twins (1911), The Japanese Twins (1912), The Irish Twins (1913), The Eskimo Twins (1914), The Mexican Twins (1915), The Cave Twins (1916), The Belgian Twins (1917), The French Twins (1918), The Spartan Twins (1918), Cornelia (1919), The Scotch Twins (1919), The Italian Twins (1920), ...