Écrivain britannique naturaliste né le 2 juin 1840 à Stinsford, Dorchester (Royaume-Uni), mort le 11 janvier 1928 dans la même ville.
Edith Wharton, fue una escritora y diseñadora estadounidense, nacida el 24 de enero de 1862, en Nueva York-Estados Unidos y fallecida el 11 de agosto de 1937 en Pavillon Colombe, quien dejó para la historia una amplia gama de trabajos intelectuales en los géneros de novela, cuento y crónica.
Although born in England in 1768, Maria Edgeworth was raised in Ireland from a young age after the death of her mother. After nearly losing her sight at age fourteen, Edgeworth was tutored at home by her father, helping to run their estate and taking charge of her younger siblings. Over the course of her life she collaborated and published books with her father, and produced many more of her own adult and children’s works, including such classics as Castle Rackrent, Patronage, Belinda, Ormond and The Absentee. Edgeworth spent her entire life on the family estate, but kept up friendships and correspondences with her contemporaries Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron, and her writing had a profound influence upon Jane Austen and William Makepeace Thackeray. Edgeworth was outspoken on the issues of poverty, women’s rights, and racial inequalities. During the beginnings of famine in Ireland, Edgeworth worked in relief and support of the sick and destitute. She died in 1849 at the age of 81.
Louis Hémon est né à Brest en 1880 d’une vieille famille bretonne. Reçu à l’école coloniale, il donne rapidement sa démission et débute sa carrière littéraire en remportant le premier prix d’un concours littéraire organisé par le journal « Le Vélo ». En 1911, il part pour le Canada, dans la région du lac Saint-Jean. C’est à cet endroit qu’il écrit Maria Chapdelaine. Louis Hémon meurt renversé par un train en 1913. Maria Chapdelaine est publié posthume.
Born in 1804, Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his historical tales and novels about American colonial society. After publishing The Scarlet Letter in 1850, its status as an instant bestseller allowed him to earn a living as a novelist. Full of dark romanticism, psychological complexity, symbolism, and cautionary tales, his work is still popular today. He has earned a place in history as one of the most distinguished American writers of the nineteenth century.
William Makepeace Thackeray was born in Calcutta in 1811. He was sent to England in 1817 and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. Following a period of gambling, unsuccessful investments and a brief career as a
lawyer, he turned to writing and drawing. In 1836 he married Isabella Shawe; following the birth of their second daughter, her mental health deteriorated and she had to be permanently supervised by a private nurse. Thackeray's first novel, Catherine, was published in 1839-40. Following the success of Vanity Fair (1847-8) he was able to devote himself to fiction, and his other notable works include Pendennis (1849), The History of Henry Esmond (1852) and The Newcomes (1855). He also edited the commercially successful Cornhill Magazine, which published writers such as Tennyson, George Eliot and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Thackeray
died suddenly on Christmas Eve, 1863.
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741-1803) a eu une grande carrière de militaire et a joué un rôle important dans la Révolution française. Fervent admirateur de Rousseau et de son roman, Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, il se lance en 1778 dans l'écriture des Liaisons dangereuses qui est son oeuvre la plus connue.
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