Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth in 1812 and died at Higham, in Kent, in 1870. He was the leading English novelist of the Victorian age. As a b…
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Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense in 1805 and died in Copenhagen in 1875. Born to a poor family, he became a novelist, playwright and travel…
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1804 and died in Plymouth, New Hampshire, in 1864. He was an American novelist and short-sto…
Mary Shelley was born in London in 1797 and died there in 1851. She was the daughter of the philosopher William Godwin and the feminist Mary Wollston…
Giacomo Leopardi was born in Recanati in 1798 and died in Naples in 1837. He was an Italian poet, philosopher and scholar, now counted among the grea…
Alexandre Dumas was born in Villers-Cotterêts in 1802 and died near Dieppe in 1870. He was a French novelist and playwright, and one of the most wide…
Victor Hugo was born in Besançon in 1802 and died in Paris in 1885. He was the leading French Romantic writer, a poet, playwright and novelist who al…
Honoré de Balzac was born in Tours in 1799 and died in Paris in 1850. He set out to describe the whole of French society in one series of novels, La …