literary history

Mysteries

The Disappearance of Agatha Christie

On the evening of 3 December 1926, Agatha Christie did something that, at the time, seemed entirely unremarkable. She left…

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Mysteries

The Disappearance of Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born on 24 June 1842, in a log cabin in Meigs County, Ohio. He was one…

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Mysteries

The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe’s stories are filled with madness, mystery, and premature burial, fitting, perhaps, for a man whose own death…

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Biographies

Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter Biography Helen Beatrix Potter was born on 28 July 1866 in West Brompton, London, England. She had a…

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Biographies

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling Biography Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Mumbai, then known as Bombay, in India.…

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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley Biography Mary Shelley was an English author who is primarily remembered for a single work. Although Frankenstein would…

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