Category: Biography
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61), British poet. She was educated at home and began writing while still very young. An injury to her spine in a childhood …
John Brown John Brown (1800-59), US antislavery militant. A White man, Brown settled in a Negro community with his family in 1849. He organized armed raids on sup-porters of …
Jim Brown Jim Brown, full name James Nathaniel Brown (1936), US Black American football player. At Syracuse University, Brown showed outstanding promise in boxing, basketball, and baseball as well …
Capability Brown Capability Brown nickname of Lancelot Brown (1715-83). British landscape gardener. He started work as a kitchen gardener but his extensive schemes for landscape improvement soon won him …
Sir Arthur Whitten Brown Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (1886-1948), Scottish aviator. During World War I he served in the Royal Flying Corps. In June 1919 he and Captain John …
Sisters Brontë Sisters Brontë A family of British novelists, Charlotte (1816-55), Emily Jane (1818-48), and Anne (1820-49). The daughters of a clergyman, they had a lonely upbringing at Haworth …
Benjamin Britten Benjamin Britten (1913-76), British composer. He studied music under the composer Frank Bridge and later at the Royal College of Music, London. In the 1930s Britten wrote …
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906-82), Soviet statesman. A qualified land surveyor and metallurgist, he served as a political officer in the Red Army during World War II. …
