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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born in 1810, she read Shakespeare, Cervantes, Moliere at the ase of 8 ; attended Groton School; taught in Bronson Alcott's school; became a feminist, Transcendentalist, brilliant conversationalist and essayist; reviewed books of Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Longfellow, Poe, Lowell, et al., for the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley; was feted in England; married a dashing Italian; experienced and chronicled the Roman Revolution. Returning home, aged 40, she was shipwrecked and drowned off Fire Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Anxious Angel | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

Other busts to be unveiled and added to the Hall of Fame, on the campus of New York University, will be those of J. J. Audubon, naturalist; Admiral D. G. Farragut; Benjamin- Franklin; Washington Irving, historian and essayist; and Mary Lyon, pioneer in the education of women and founder of Mount Holyoke College...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEABODY TO PARTICIPATE IN UNVEILING AT HALL OF FAME | 5/4/1927 | See Source »

...Shaw: "To the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation, which I established with the $35,000 Nobel Prize for Liberature awarded me for 1925 (TIME, Nov. 22, Nov. 29) I last week gave the first assignment: To translate all the works of August Strindberg, satirical, gloomy, thrice-married, woman-hating Swedish essayist, fictionist and dramatist. Author Strindberg, (1849-1912) is famed for his bitter efforts to counteract the Scandinavian feminist movement fostered by Dramatist Henrik Ibsen of Norway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 28, 1927 | 2/28/1927 | See Source »

Married. Joan Whitridge, granddaughter of famed Poet-Essayist Matthew Arnold; to Harry Forsyth, grandson of the late William Forsyth, M. P., Q. C., author; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...Author, a Christian, son of an old merchant family, a journalist and essayist of high and cosmopolitan reputation, received as his first royalty on The City Without Jews a bullet which killed him, fired in cold blood by a 20-year-old Nordic caller, who later said he was proud to have struck such a blow for Kultur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes: Non-Fiction | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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