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2 days ago · While there, Kipling met and fell in love with Florence Garrard, who was boarding with Trix at Southsea (to which Trix had returned). Florence became the model for Maisie in Kipling's first novel, The Light That Failed (1891).
2 days ago · William Butler Yeats[ a ] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
2 days ago · Rosalind Elsie Franklin (25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958) [ 1 ] was a British chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite. [ 2 ] Although her works on coal and viruses were appreciated in her lifetime ...
2 days ago · Nobody’s Empire by Stuart Murdoch is published by Faber, £20. Nobody’s Empire: An Evening With Stuart Murdoch is at Glasgow University Union, Glasgow tonight. The last few years have been ...
1 day ago · Robert Angus Frederick Bell. Bob Bell was born in Liverpool in 1943 and studied medicine at Edinburgh University. His paediatric training was at Liverpool and Dundee, briefly interrupted by a fellowship at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. In 1974 the death of a young child from an opiate overdose following discharge from Horton Hospital ...
2 days ago · Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way. Christel Bell shares how her dreams became reality in her new children’s book "Christel's Breaking News" Learn more at ChristelBellTV.com.
5 days ago · The best new novels of 2024, as selected by the editors of the literary recommendations site Five Books and judges of the biggest fiction prizes.
