Charlotte Mary Yonge was a British writer during the 19th century. She devoted her writing to the church and the Oxford Movement, which strove to bring ...

Mary Austin was an early ecologist, feminist, and desert dweller. The Land of Little Rain is a book about earth, sky, weather, and some of the plants and ...

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America was written by G. Whitfield Ray. Ray was a missionary and government ...

Without symbolism there can be no literature; indeed, not even language. What are words themselves but symbols, almost as arbitrary as the letters which ...

Her pen name was Belloc Lowndes. Lowndes was an early 20th century British novelist. A Jack the Ripper type murderer was killing young blonde women in ...

John Dewey was a 20th century philosopher, psychologist and education reformer. Dewey was one of the founders of the philosophical school of Pragmatism. ...

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In Daybreak a Romance of an Old World the main character goes to Mars where he finds a race superior to ours in body, mind and morals. Cowan describes ...