Edward Lear

Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised. Lear was born into a middle-class family in the village of Holloway, the 21st child of Ann and Jeremiah Lear. He was raised by his eldest sister, also named Ann, 21 years his senior. Ann doted on Lear and continued to mother him until her death, when Lear was almost 50 years of age. Due to the family's failing financial fortune, at age four he and his sister had to leave the family home and set up house together. Largely educated by himself, Lear has been described as idiosyncratic yet brilliantly talented[citation needed]. Lear also suffered from health issues. From the age of six he suffered frequent grand mal epileptic seizures, and bronchitis, asthma, and in later life, partial blindness. Lear experienced his first seizure at a fair near Highgate with his...

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Lia Savu

Lia Savu s-a nascut la Bucuresti în 1932. Absolventa a Facultatii de Chimie a Universitatii din Bucuresti, specialist in biochimie, in perioada 1953-1963 lucreaza ca cercetator la Institutul de Biochimie al Academiei Romane. In 1963 emigreaza in Franta, devenind, in 1964, asistent la catedra de biochimie a Facultatii de Medicina din Paris, apoi, din 1972, cercetator la CNRS. Isi sustine teza de doctorat in 1975 iar in 1986 e numita Directeur de Recherche la CNRS. Se stinge din viata in 1995, lasand in urma zece caiete cu poeme si un jurnal, toate inedite, publicate un an mai tarziu de catre Colette Seghers in revista pariziana Poesie. *** LIA SAVU (1932 – 1995) Lia Savu est née à Bucarest. Elle suit les cours du Lycée français de la capitale et poursuit des études à la Faculté de Chimie. Elle commence une carrière de chercheur en biochimie dans la Roumanie communiste et finit par émigrer en France en 1963, où elle continue son ascension dans son domaine de...

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