Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was an English novelist and pioneer of the science fiction genre. She is best known as the author of Frankenstein. She was born on August 30, 1797, to William Godwin, a renowned philosopher and political journalist, and...
Who Was Samuel Pepys? Samuel Pepys (pronounced ‘Peeps’) was a British public servant, naval admiral and later MP, who was born to tailor John Pepys and his wife Margaret, on Fleet Street, London in February 1633. In 1642, when Samuel was nine years-old, the English...
Edgar Allan Poe, born January 19th 1809, was one of the most influential American writers of the nineteenth century. He was a renowned critic, writer, poet, and editor, famous for his dark and mysterious writing style. Here is a list of reasons why we keep going back...
Down the years, our seasonal solstices have brought out the imagination in a number of creative artists, and American poet Robert Frost was no exception, with the recently passed winter solstice that which brought his pen to paper… ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy...
Much like Geoffrey Chaucer, who introduced around 2000 words to the English Language, William Shakespeare was responsible for coining many common phrases that we still use to this day. Whilst some of these phrases are a testament to Shakespeare’s incredible linguistic...
It seems silly to suggest that something as broad as a genre must have a tiered system. After all, everyone knows what is meant by fantasy, right? What else is there to say on the matter? Well, an awful lot to tell you the truth! There’s high fantasy and low fantasy,...
