Author profiles

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W. B. Yeats

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WBY , who began publishing well before the end of the nineteenth century, is regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century poets in English, and one of the most international of Irish writers. He...

Charlotte Yonge

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CY was a staggeringly prolific author. Her more than two hundred works include domestic and historical novels for both adults and children, biographies, history and language textbooks, religious manuals, and a fragment of autobiography. She...
Charlotte Yonge Black and white reproduction of an albumen print of Charlotte Yonge's head by the Rev. Duke Yonge, 1858? The image is oval; the sitter is seen in profile facing left. She is wearing a small, light cap, a pale ribbon around her neck fastened with a brooch (perhaps a cameo), and embroidery around her collar. National Portrait Gallery.

E. H. Young

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As well as eleven middle-brow novels, published between 1910 and shortly after the Second World War and most of them fine examples of the twentieth-century domestic style, EHY wrote stories and poems printed in magazines...
E. H. Young Black and white, head and shoulders photograph of E. H. Young by Howard Coster, 1932. She is in semi-profile, wearing a skullcap-like hat, fur-collared coat, gloves, and a double string of pearls. National Portrait Gallery.

Mary Julia Young

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MJY , who began writing in the 1780s and publishing in the 1790s, turned from poetry to mostly novels before the turn of the century. By this time the pressure to earn money must have...
Young, Mary Julia