Tag: Biography
Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), US philosopher, essayist, and poet. He resigned from his pulpit at the Second Unitarian Church in Boston in 1832. After visiting Europe …
Duke Ellington Duke Ellington, nickname of Edward Kennedy Ellington (1899-1974). US jazz pianist, bandleader, and corn-poser. A Black, he started to work as a nightclub pianist while still in …
Elizabeth II Elizabeth II (1926), Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. In 1947 she married her third cousin Philip Mountbatten (1921), who was created Duke of Edinburgh before …
Elizabeth I of England Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603), Queen of England from 1558, regarded as one of the greatest English sovereigns. The daughter of Henry VIII and Anne …
T. S. Eliot T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), British poet, dramatist, and critic, born in the US. He studied philosophy at Harvard, and Oxford, where he met the poet Ezra …
George Eliot George Eliot, pen-name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-80), British novelist. After her mother’s death in 1836, she kept house for her father until he died. In 1849 …
George Eliot George Eliot, pen-name of Mary Ann Evans (1819-80), British novelist. After her mother’s death in 1836, she kept house for her father until he died. In 1849 …
Edward Elgar Edward Elgar (1857-1934), British composer. Self-taught, he played in local orchestras and settled in Malvern after an unsuccessful period in London (1889-91). His Enigma Variations (1899), an …
