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Max Dauthendey
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Sophie Walburga Margaretha Hoechstetter 1873- 1943. Sophie was born as the youngest of six daughters to an apothecary in Pappenheim who was proprietor of a long established pharmacy that had descended through a century of family ownership. She experienced a carefree youth and found early interest in the works of Byron and Goethe. She published her first work, which was directed towards female emancipation, Goethe als Erzieher (Goethe as Educator), in 1896.
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Andre Chenier
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André Marie Chénier 1762 - 1794. Chénier was born in Constantinople (Istanbul) to a French father who occupied the position of Consul and a mother of Franco Greek origin. He was taken, at an early age, to France, however, to live in Carcassonne whilst his father took the position of Consul General of France in Morocco. He later studied classics in Paris. His poem, La Jeune Captive, was written during his imprisonment supposedly based on the thoughts of a fellow captive, the duchesse de Fleury.
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Robert Seymour Bridges
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Robert Seymour Bridges 1844-1930. The North Wind in October. Bridges was born in Walmer, Kent, to a large family where his father was a member of a prosperous Kentish family of landowners. His father died in 1853, however, and his mother remarried in 1854 removing the family to Rochdale. Several of his works were set to music by Parry, Holst and Finzi.
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Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Marceline Desbordes-Valmore 1786- 1859. Les Roses de Saadi. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore was born at Douai to a family where her father was an armorial painter but whose livelihood was destroyed by the revolution and who thereupon sought poorly paid work as an innkeeper. Marceline wrote several collections of poetry beginning publication with Élégies et Romances in 1819 ending with Bouquets et prières in 1843 but she continued acting until 1832 after which she concentrated on writing including 'Tales' for...
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Louise Brachmann
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Karoline Louise Brachmann 1777 - 1822. Louise Brachmann was born in Rochlitz, Saxony, to a civil service father and a cultured mother, the daughter of a church minister. She was the middle child with an elder brother and younger sister. After several postings, the family settled in Weißenfels, Halle, when Louise had attained 10 years of age. After a failed attempt at suicide in September, 1822, she evaded the care of her friends a few days later and leaped into the river Saale and drowned.
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Louise-Rose-Etiennette Rosemonde Gerard Rostand
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Louise-Rose-Étiennette (Rosemonde) Gérard Rostand 1871- 1953. La Rose de Saadi. Louise-Rose-Étiennette Gérard was born in Paris to a noble family; and whose paternal grandfather was the distinguished Marshal Étienne Maurice Gérard of the Napoleonic era. She published her first collection of poems, Les Pipeaux, in 1889 in which she assumed the pen name, Rosemonde, inspired by her grandmother, the widow of Marshal Gérard. She died in Paris.
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William Earnest Henley
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William Ernest Henley 1849- 1903. O Gather Me The Rose. Love Blows as The Wind Blows. Henley married Hannah Johnson Boyle in 1878. Their daughter, Margaret, became the inspiration for Wendy in J M Barrie's Peter Pan but she died aged only 5 years. Henley died of tuberculosis at his home in Woking.
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Sidonie Grunwald-Zirkovitz
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Sidonie Grünwald-Zerkovitz 1852- 1907. Zum Lieben sind wir nie zu alt. Sidonie was born at Tovacov (Tobitschau) in the former Austrian empire in the present Czech Republic where her father was a doctor. She attended school at Holeschau followed by boarding school in Vienna becoming a gifted linguist who spoke Czech, German, Hungarian, French and Italian. Her husband committed suicide in 1890 following bankruptcy, after which she opened a language school in Vienna. Sidonie began writing poetry at an early...
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Franziska Stoecklin
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Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger (1924- 1942). Ich Bin Die Nacht. Selma Meerbaum (or Merbaum) was born in Czernowitz, now Czernivtsi, Ukraine, a multi-cultural area in the Bukovina. Her father, Max, died when she was only two years old, however, and her mother married a haberdashery shopkeeper, Leo Eisinger. Selma's resort in her poems to the decency of humanity and to her portrayals of nature bravely defies the world collapsing about her.
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Farewell to Bright Eyes
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Farewell to Bright Eyes. Once more, the time has come. To hold our happy child. Here within our arms. In the quiet of the night. For we transform the darkness. To the rapture of our dreams,. When we hear the evening hymn. In the fading of the light. Then, in sleep, our child appears. And floats to us through perfumed air. As softly as the moonlight beams. That heaven's realm has sent. Now, the brightness in our tears. Will glisten in the dark. And words will sound within our souls. Come from distant skies.