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 Pastiche
The literary term is used in two slightly different ways, and the concept can be found in other arts, not just literature, ranging from architecture to film. In the first sense, a pastiche is a form of homage which is accomplished through imitation. In the second definition, a pastiche is a med ...
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
Jane Austen was an English novelist whose books, set among the English middle and upper classes, are notable for their wit, social observation and insights into the lives of early 19th century women. She was born on 16 December 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire, one of eight children ...
- Herbert George Wells (1866-1946)
English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian, whose science fiction stories have been filmed many times. H.G. Wells's best known works are The Time Machine (1895), one of the first modern science fiction stories, The Invisible Man (1897), and The War Of The Worlds (1898). Wells wrot ...
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a whaling boat and also as a medical officer on a steamer travelling between Liverpool and West Africa. ...
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Victorian playwright, jailed for his homosexuality Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. His father was a successful surgeon and his mother a writer and literary hostess. Wilde was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. While at ...
- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
George Gordon Noel, sixth Baron Byron, was born on 22 January 1788 in London. His father died when he was three, with the result that he inherited his title from his great uncle in 1798. Byron spent his early years in Aberdeen and was educated at Harrow School and Cambridge University. In 1809, ...
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
William Shakespeare Shakespeare's reputation as dramatist and poet actor is unique and he is considered by many to be the greatest playwright of all time, although many of the facts of his life remain mysterious. William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire and was ba ...
- William Wordsworth - 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads. The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was ...
- Roald Dahl 1916 - 1990
Best-selling author of children's books Place of Birth: Cardiff Biography: Author of many of the UK's favourite children's books, Roald Dahl created magical worlds with a dark undercurrent in classics like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, and The BFG. He was b ...
- WH Davies 1871-1940
Most famous poem Leisure What is this life if full of care We have no time to stand and stare, etc. Place of Birth: Newport "What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?" WH Davies Biography: The life of Newport's "tramp poet" is one of the most remarkable in lite ...
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