Charles Algernon Swinburne was born in 1837. Poet, playwright, novelist, & critic with often taboo subject matter, Swinburne also lived with Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Tudor House, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. Images: Rossetti, William Bell Scott & Beerbohm. Happy Birthday CAS! 📖

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Our first Extraordinary Woman of the week is Hannah More (1745–1833): Philanthropist, poet, playwright, and author. She suggested that women were denied a quality education, leaving them unfit to function properly in society.

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"The most important thing is, even when we're apart ... I'll always be with you ..."

✒️  English author, poet, and playwright, created  31 January 1956.

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“Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is.”
Happy Birthday, YUKIO MISHIMA, author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai, an unarmed civilian militia

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HII i'm jeff/playwright, i draw some funny doggos sometimes-- 😳

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David Mamet (b. 30 Nov 1947), American playwright, director, and screenwriter.

"Noted for his often desperate working-class characters and for his distinctive, colloquial, and frequently profane dialogue."

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30th of November 1900, Oscar Wilde died in Paris aged 46. We in the Oscar Wilde Society remember him, not in his later sad years but holding court in London Society, the successful playwright, cigarette in hand with his wit and sparkling conversation. ⁦⁩ .

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Elmer Rice (28 Sep 1892 - 8 May 1967), American playwright, director, and novelist.

"Noted for his innovative and polemical plays."

📷 From the Bain Collection. LoC.

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E Zola, by Théobald Chartran - Vanity Fair, 24 January 1880

Émile Zola was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism.

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Gilbert O'Vile is a playwright, so definitely he earned money from his plays and he would impress the Marquess and Marchioness de Guerre who are his patrons

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Sir Richard Steele (baptised 12 March 1672 Sept 1729 Wales). Writer, playwright, MP. Co-founder of The Tatler (echo coffee house conversations. Jonathan Swift contributed!), The Spectator & the Guardian. In household of Prince George of Denmark! https://t.co/Whj2NNw9M8

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Turgenev - Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

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🎨 Dutch painter, etcher and playwright, 9 July 1756.

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🐉 💓🇮🇳 Rabindranath Tagore was truly a man of the Renaissance. He was a 20th-century Bengali polymath who worked as a poet,writer,playwright, composer,philosopher,social reformer, and painter.📗 https://t.co/ECGqqVpE9F
🏛 private collection
Untitled (Dragon) 1st half Of 20th c.

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The many faces of John Byrne- Artist, playwright, workaholic, genius! (B.1940 Scottish) https://t.co/xKtvkce5PF

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in 1860, J M Barrie was a Scottish author and playwright, best known for his creation of Peter Pan. For all those who refuse to grow up, here are some Peter Pan moments for you ..

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"Man is in these deviations a strange problem; - Who of us at all times is true to himself?"

✒️ French playwright, was 6 May 1759.

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Gertrude Elizabeth, Lady Colin Campbell (3 May 1857?-1 Nov 1911). Parents from & Artist, journalist, author, playwright, editor.👰brother-in-law of Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's 4th daughter. Divorced. Accomplished🏇! Advocate ♀️🚲 https://t.co/eZCkSW3dpD

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"And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim, hors'd
Upon the sightless couriers of the air."
Macbeth (1623)

English playwright, poet and actor William Shakespeare was baptised in 1564.

Books by Shakespeare at PG:
https://t.co/ReH2Iplbrq

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