Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (21 aprilie, 1816 – 31 martie, 1855) a fost o romancieră și poetă engleză, sora mai mare a celorlalte două scriitoare: Emily Brontë și Anne Brontë. Charlotte Brontë, care obișnuia să folosească pseudonimul de Currer Bell, este cunoscută pentru cartea ei Jane Eyre, unul dintre cele mai celebre romane din literatura engleză. S-a născut la Thornton și și-a petrecut copilăria și tinerețea la Haworth, bucurându-se de educația sporadică, lectura independentă și libertatea de acțiune ce li se oferea tuturor copiilor din familia ei. Un an petrecut la o școală ieftină pentru fiice de preot, la Cowan's Bridge, unde mâncarea proastă și disciplina exagerat de severă au ruinat sănătatea surorilor ei mai mari Maria și Elizabeth, moarte la 10 și respectiv 11 ani, i-a oferit lui Bronte materialul pentru zugrăvirea școlii din Lowood în romanul „Jane Eyre”. În 1831 Brontë a fost trimisă la școala din Roe Head, Dewsbury. Corespondența cu prietenele cunoscute aici, care a durat până la...

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Lady Charlotte Elliot

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Anne Bronte

Anne Bronte s-a nascut la 17 ianuarie 1820 la Thornton, Yorkshire, Anglia. Era cel mai mic dintre cei sase copii ai reverendului Patrick si a sotiei sale Maria Bronte. Alaturi de celelalte doua surori ale sale, Charlotte si Emily si de fratele Branwell, ea a supravietuit mamei, care moare in 1821, si altor doua surori, Maria si Elizabeth, care au decedat in acelasi an – 1825. Cea mai mica dintre surorile Bronte, Anne a ramas in istoria literaturii britanice ca romancier si poet. Initial ea a folosit ca si surorile sale un pseudonim masculin, Acton Bell, pentru a publica in prima lor carte – de fapt una dintre primele carti publicate exclusiv de catre autori-femei. In volumul lor de debut POEMS BY CURRER, ELLIS AND ACTON BELL (Poeme de Currer, Ellis si Acton Bell, 1846, vandut in doar doua exemplare) Anne isi exprima dorinta de libertate “Poor restless dove, I pity thee; / And when I hear thy plaintive moan, / I mourn for thy captivity, / And in thy woes forget mine own.” – Biata...

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Ludwig Albert Ganghofer

Ludwig Albert Ganghofer (* 7. Juli 1855 in Kaufbeuren; † 24. Juli 1920 in Tegernsee) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller, der durch seine Heimatromane bekannt geworden ist. Seine Eltern waren der Ministerialrat August Ganghofer (später Leiter der Königlich Bayerischen Forstverwaltung, dem 1887 der nicht erbliche Adelstitel Ritter verliehen wurde) und dessen Frau Karolina (Rufname Charlotte), geb. Louis. Einen Teil seiner Kindheit (1859–1865) verbrachte Ludwig Ganghofer in Welden bei Augsburg. Nach dem Abitur am Königlich-Bayerischen Gymnasium im Jahr 1873 in Regensburg arbeitete er ein Jahr als Schlosser und Monteur in einer Augsburger Maschinenfabrik. 1875 begann er ein Maschinenbaustudium am Polytechnikum in München, wechselte jedoch später zu Literaturgeschichte und Philosophie in München, Berlin und Leipzig. 1879 promovierte er in Leipzig. Sein erstes Schauspiel „Der Herrgottschnitzer von Ammergau“ schrieb Ganghofer 1880 für das Münchner Gärtnerplatztheater. Es wurde dort 19 Mal...

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Neagu Djuvara

S-a nascut la Bucuresti in 1916, intr-o familie de mai indepartata origine aromana care a dat tarii mai multi oameni politici, diplomati, profesori si oameni de stiinta. Tatal autorului. Marcel Djuvara, sef de promotie la Politehnica din Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1906, a murit capitan de Geniu in armata romana in cursul marii epidemii de gripa spaniola din 1918. Mama autorului, Tinca Gradisteanu, apartinea ultimei generatii dintr-un neam de mari boieri munteni (in secolul al XVll-lea, Bunea Vistierul Gradisteanu a fost ctitorul mai multor biserici sau manastiri, printre care viitoarea Mitropolie din Bucuresti, unde a fost inmormantat). Neagu Djuvara si-a facut studiile la Paris: licenta in litere (istoric), 1937; doctorat in drept, 1940; doclorat de stat in litere (filozofie a istoriei), 1972; diploma a Institutului de Limbi si Civilizatii Orientale (I.N.A.L.C.O.), 1988. In 1941 participa cu Regimentul 6 Dorobanti de Garda „Mihai Viteazul“ la campania din Basarabia si Transnistria. In...

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Alain Grandbois

Né le 25 mai 1900 à Saint - Casimir, Portneuf, Québec Poète, nouvelliste, mémorialiste et essayiste, Alain Grandbois a fait des études classiques au Collège de Montréal et au Séminaire de Québec, puis à l'Université Saint-Dunstan à Charlottetown, et à l'Université Laval de Québec, où il devient licencié en droit (1924). De 1924 à 1939, il séjourne à Paris et voyage en Europe grâce à un héritage. Il fréquente alors de nombreux artistes et poètes et se lie avec Pellan, Cendrars et Marcel Dugas, entre autres. Il revient à Montréal en 1939, puis s'installe dans un village près de Québec pour écrire Les Voyages de Marco Polo. Il devient ensuite le bibliographe de la Bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice de Montréal. Dès lors, il collabore à plusieurs revues dont Amérique française, Poésie 46, Liaison, Liberté et La nouvelle Revue canadienne. De 1950 à 1952, il réalise et anime une émission sur la littérature canadienne pour Radio-Canada. En 1961, il devient fonctionnaire au Musée provincial de...

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1946. Lowell was born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Boston Brahmin family that included the poets Amy Lowell and James Russell Lowell. His mother, Charlotte Winslow, was a descendant of William Samuel Johnson, a signer of the United States Constitution, Jonathan Edwards, the famed Calvinist theologian, Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan preacher and healer, Robert Livingston the Elder, Thomas Dudley, the second governor of Massachusetts, and Mayflower passengers James Chilton and his daughter Mary Chilton. He was at St. Mark's School, a prominent prep-school in Southborough, Massachusetts, before attending Harvard College for two years and transferring to Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, to study under John Crowe Ransom. Land of Unlikeness (1944) Lord...

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Fleur Adcock

Poet Fleur Adcock was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 10 February 1934, but spent much of her childhood, including the war years, in England. She studied Classics at Victoria University in Wellington and taught at the University of Otago, moving to London in 1963 where she worked as a librarian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. She has held various literary fellowships, including a period at the Charlotte Mason College of Education, Ambleside (1977-78). Later she held the Northern Arts Fellowship at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Durham (1979-81), where she met the composer Gillian Whitehead with whom she collaborated on a song cycle libretto and later a full-length opera about Eleanor of Aquitaine. In 1984 she was Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia. She has been writing full-time since 1981. Her poetry has received numerous awards, many of them from her native New Zealand, and she won a Cholmondeley Award in 1976. She was awarded an OBE in 1996. A...

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