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John Lovell (grocer) (c. 1851–1913), businessman in Los Angeles, California John C. Lovell (born 1967), American sailor John Harvey Lovell (1860–1939), entomologist in Maine
Literary Garland was started in December 1838 by John Lovell, a Montreal-based publisher who came to Quebec from Ireland in 1820 and made a reputation publishing school texts, directories, and gazetteers. His brother-in-law John Gibson served as editor from 1838 to 1842 and co-publisher from 1842 until the magazine's dissolution in 1851.
The Fireside Poets (also known as the "Schoolroom" or "Household Poets") were a group of American poets from New England. The group is usually described as comprising Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , William Cullen Bryant , John Greenleaf Whittier , James Russell Lowell , and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon (January 12, 1829 – September 20, 1879), born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet.She was "one of the first English-Canadian writers to depict French Canada in a way that earned the praise of, and resulted in her novels being read by, both anglophone and francophone Canadians."
However, his poetry is "full of thought and richness of diction", in the words of John William Cousin, who praised Beddoes's short pieces such as "If thou wilt ease thine heart" (from Death's Jest-Book, Act II) and "If there were dreams to sell" ("Dream-Pedlary") as "masterpieces of intense feeling exquisitely expressed". [6]
Poet, Literary Critic, Co-founder of New Criticism & Charter Member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers [35] John Wayne † Actor [35] Eudora Welty: Pulitzer Prize Winning Novelist & Short Story Writer [35] Tennessee Williams: Playwright & Screenwriter [35] Roger Nash Baldwin: 1981 Co-founder and 1st Executive Director of the American Civil ...
Isidore Gordon Gottschalk Ascher (1835 – September 19, 1914) was a Scottish-Canadian novelist and poet. He was born in Glasgow in 1835, the eldest son of Isaac Gottschalk Ascher and brother to Jacob Ascher.
The Lachine massacre, part of the Beaver Wars, occurred when 1,500 Mohawk warriors launched a surprise attack against the small (375 inhabitants) settlement of Lachine, New France, at the upper end of Montreal Island, on the morning of 5 August 1689.