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Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH KBE (1853-1931) was a British author whose novels achieved great success in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also acted as secretary to the Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the artist's later years. Caine was a lover of the Isle of Man and Manx culture and many of his novels are set on the island. Begun in 1914, The Master of Man: The Story of a Sin, had been set aside for the d...

Lilian Lida Bell (1867-1929), who also used the pen name Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Bogue, was an American novelist and travel writer. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, but brought up in Atlanta, Georgia, and began writing from an early age. Her first work of fiction was The Love Affairs of an Old Maid, published in 1893, which was very well-received. The Runaway Equator, a children's book published in 1911 and subtitled The Strange Adventures of a Lit...

Frances Fuller Victor (1826-1902) was an American historian and historical novelist known for her books about the West and especially Oregon history. Both she and her sister Metta Victoria Fuller became well-known for their writing, publishing stories and poems in the Home Journal from an early age, and later progressing to dime novels while living in New York. Following her second marriage, Fuller settled in Portland, Oregon in 1864, where he...

Samuel Longhorne Clemens (1835-1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. His best known works include the novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel". Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri which later provided the setting for Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. After an...

Charlotte Maria Tucker (1821-93) was a prolific writer for adults and children who used the pseudonym A.L.O.E. (A Lady of England). Late in life she spent a period as a volunteer missionary in India where she died. Her father was twice elected chairman of the East India Company and she had a secular upbringing in London, her first writings being poems and plays to amuse the family. In 1847 she took charge of the education of her brother's thre...

Sir Almroth Edward Wright (1861-1947) was a British bacteriologist and immunologist of mixed Anglo-Irish and Swedish descent. He is notable for developing a system of anti-typhoid fever inoculation, recognizing early on that antibiotics would create resistant bacteria, and being a strong advocate for preventive medicine. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin with first class honours in modern literature, simultaneously graduating in medici...

Humbert Wolfe (1885-1940) was an Italian-born British poet, man of letters and civil servant. Born in Milan, he came from a Jewish background, his father being of German descent and his mother Italian. He was brought up in Bradford, West Yorkshire and was a pupil at Bradford Grammar School before attending Wadham College at Oxford University. As well as being one of the most popular authors of the 1920s he was also a translator of Heinrich Hei...

H G Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography, and even two books of recreational war games. He is best remembered now for his science fiction novels including The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898), but during his own lifetime he was most prominent as a forward-looking social critic a...

Booker Taliaferro Washington (1856-1915) was an African American educator, author, orator, and adviser to multiple presidents of the United States, who, between 1890 and 1915, was the dominant leader in the African American community. He came from the last generation of black American leaders born into slavery and became the leading voice of the former slaves and their descendants. A key proponent of African American businesses and one of the ...

H G Wells (1866-1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography, and even two books of recreational war games. He is best remembered now for his science fiction novels including The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898), but during his own lifetime he was most prominent as a forward-looking social critic a...

Joseph Shuter Smith (1893-1950) was an American, born in Philadelphia, who enlisted in the 29th Vancouver Battalion in the fall of 1914. He saw service along the Belgian front, and in August 1916 was given a commission in the British Army. At the time this manual on trench warfare was published in 1917 he was serving as a Second Lieutenant in the infantry service with the British Expeditionary Force on the French front. The information set for...

Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913) was an American newspaperman, editor, newspaper owner, and author of both fiction and non-fiction. He was born in St. Clair County, Michigan and after attending the University of Michigan he moved to Chicago to study law but abandoned his studies to begin a career in journalism. In 1871, after the Great Chicago Fire, he relocated to St. Louis, Missouri where he acquired a proprietorship interest in the Evening Jour...

James Cook FRS (1728-79) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Having served in the merchant navy in his teens, he joined th...

James Cook FRS (1728-79) was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the British Royal Navy. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. Having served in the merchant navy in his teens, he joined th...

Benson (1862-1925) was an English essayist, poet, author and academic, and the 28th Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is noted for writing the words to Land of Hope and Glory for the coronation of Edward VII. Born into a literary family, his brothers included E F Benson, known best for his Mapp and Lucia novels, and Robert Hugh Benson, a priest of the Church of England before converting to Roman Catholicism who also wrote many popular...

Baroness Orczy (1865-1947) was a Hungarian-born British novelist and playwright best-known for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel, the alter-ego of Sir Percy Blakeney, a wealthy English fop who turns into a quick-thinking escape artist in order to save ill-fated French royalty from 'Madame Guillotine' during the French Revolution. These novels established the 'hero with a secret identity' into popular culture. The Scarlet Pim...

Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) was an English cleric, scholar and influential economist in the fields of political economy and demography. In his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population he oberved that an increase in a nation's food production improved the well-being of the populace, but the improvement was temporary because it led to population growth which in turn restored the original per capita production level. He saw populat...

George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist, poet, journalist, and translator Mary Ann Evans (1819-90). She was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era and the author of seven novels, including The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Middlemarch (1871). Most are set in provincial England and are admired for their realism and psychological insight. Born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, she was a voracious reader ...

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer of the Victorian era who usually wrote as Mrs Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass domestic realism, the historical novel, and tales of the supernatural. As a girl she constantly experimented with writing and in 1849 her first novel Passages in the Life of Mrs Margaret Maitland was published. It was followed in 1851 by Caleb Field, and in that year she met the publish...

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer of the Victorian era who usually wrote as Mrs Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass domestic realism, the historical novel, and tales of the supernatural. As a girl she constantly experimented with writing and in 1849 her first novel Passages in the Life of Mrs Margaret Maitland was published. It was followed in 1851 by Caleb Field, and in that year she met the publish...