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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history. He began his career as a classical philologist before turning to philosophy, becoming the youngest person ever to hold the Chair of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in 1869 at the age of 24. He resigned in 1879 due to health problems that pla...

Albert Bigelow Paine (1861-1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. He was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Committee and wrote in several genres, including fiction, humour, verse, travel books, and stories for children. Paine had a long association with Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), lived and travelled with him for four years, and acted as his literary executor, arranging for the publication of Mark Tw...

Margaret Marshall Saunders (1861-1947) was a prolific Canadian writer of children's stories and romance novels, a lecturer, and an animal rights advocate. The daughter of a Baptist minister, she spent her childhood in Berwick, Nova Scotia, before studying in Scotland and France. She returned to Halifax where she took courses at Dalhousie for a year prior to launching her career as a freelance writer, adopting a shortened version of her name in...

Percy Cross Standing (1870-1931) was a British author and journalist. This book, published in the Daily Telegraph War Books 'At the Front' series at the end of 1914, describes events on the Eastern Front, or Eastern Theatre, during the early months of World War I after Russia's successful invasion of Galicia, defeating the Austro-Hungarian forces there. It also covers the defence of the Vistula, the siege of Przemysl, and the German retreat an...

Charles Thomas Paske was a Deputy-Surgeon-General who served with the Bengal Army. In this book published in 1892 and edited by his friend Frederick George Aflalo, he looks back over the years he spent in Burmah (now known as Myanmar) during the 1850s. Neither a history nor a geography of the region, Paske's aim in setting down these reminiscences is to engage his readers with observations on a variety of interesting topics. After outlining th...

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...

Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist, who is regarded as one of the most influential scholars of religion in the early 20th century. He is best known for his theory of numinous, a profound emotional experience he argued was at the heart of the world's religions. Otto evntually came to conceive his work as part of a science of religion which was divided into the philosophy o...

Julia Pardoe (1804-62) was an English poet, novelist, historian, and traveller. Born in Beverley, Yorkshire, she was the second daughter of Major Thomas Pardoe who had served in the Peninsula campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars and fought at Waterloo. She began writing at an early age and published her first work, The Nun: A Poetical Romance, anonymously in 1824. Her first novel Lord Morcar of Hereward (1829) was also published anonymously. Like ...

George Sand, the pen name of Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin (1804-76), was a French novelist, memoirist and socialist, recognised as one of the most notable writers of the European Romantic era. She was born in Paris and raised for much of her childhood by her grandmother at her estate in the province of Berry, which Sand later used as the setting for many of her novels. She adopted an unconventional lifestyle, donning male attire and smoking in...

Charles Adolphus Row (1816-96) was a British Christian preacher and moral philosopher. He was born in St John's, Cornwall, later attending Pembroke College, Oxford where he obtained his BA in 1838 and MA in 1841. From 1848-61 he was headmaster of the Royal Free Grammar School in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. From the 1870s Row became a frequent lecturer, including a course of lectures in defence of the gospel at Cleveland Hall, Fitzroy Square in...

John Ruskin (1819-1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker, and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany, and political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied: he wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guid...

Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-71) was a French watchmaker, magician, and illusionist, widely recognized as the father of the modern style of conjuring. He transformed magic from a pastime for the lower classes seen at fairs, to an entertainment for the wealthy performed in his own theatre. Determined to follow in his father's profession of watchmaker, he ordered a two-volume set of books on horology but received instead two volumes entitled ...

First published in 1917, this novel subtitled The History of the Adventures of an English Composer in Vienna, and which purports to be 'Written in the Trenches by Himself', tells the story of a mystery surrounding a beautiful young woman with whom the narrator, Patrick Cooper, has a chance encounter on a train from Salzburg to Vienna, who he then discovers to be Mitzi, his landlord's daughter (and the 'Austrian love' of the title), when he tak...

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1858-1919) was an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901-09. A sickly child, he overcame his health problems by adopting a strenuous lifestyle, and he integrated his exuberant personality, vast range of interests, and world-famous achievements into a 'cowboy' persona defined by robust masculinity. He was home-schooled befor...

Julia Pardoe (1804-62) was an English poet, novelist, historian, and traveller. Born in Beverley, Yorkshire, she was the second daughter of Major Thomas Pardoe who had served in the Peninsula campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars and fought at Waterloo. She began writing at an early age and published her first work, The Nun: A Poetical Romance, anonymously in 1824. Her first novel Lord Morcar of Hereward (1829) was also published anonymously. Like ...

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