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Elizabeth Alexander (born May 30, 1962) is an American poet, writer, and literary scholar who has served as the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation since 2018. Previously, Alexander was a professor for 15 years at Yale University , where she taught poetry and chaired the African American studies department.
Elizabeth Sewell (March 9, 1919 – January 12, 2001) was a British-American critic, poet, novelist, and professor who often wrote about the connections between science and literature. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Among her published works were five books of criticism, four novels, three books of poetry, [ 1 ] and many short stories, essays, and other work in ...
Elizabeth Akers Allen (pen name, Florence Percy; October 9, 1832 – August 7, 1911) was an American poet and journalist.Her early poems appeared over the signature of "Florence Percy", and many of them were first published in the Portland Transcript.
Carpenter was an ardent supporter of the Women's Movement when it began and never wavered from her convictions. Her projects and causes ranged from supporting the Equal Rights Amendment to fighting cancer. Her lighthearted memoir of her time in the White House, Ruffles and Flourishes, published in 1969, was a national best-seller. [4]
In Congress, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political ...
Elizabeth Willis in Speaking Portraits, c.2004. Elizabeth Willis (born April 28, 1961, Bahrain) is an American poet and literary critic. She currently serves as Professor of Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. [1] Willis has won several awards for her poetry including the National Poetry Series and the Guggenheim Fellowship.
Elizabeth Fries Ellet (née Lummis; October 18, 1818 – June 3, 1877) was an American writer, historian and poet. She was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War. [1] Born Elizabeth Fries Lummis, in New York, she published her first book, Poems, Translated and Original, in 1835. She ...
Her brother, Joseph Wolstenholme. Elizabeth Clarke Wolstenholme spent most of her life in villages and towns which now form part of Greater Manchester.She was born in Cheetham Hill, Lancashire, the third child and only daughter of Elizabeth (née Clarke), who died shortly after her daughter's birth, and the Rev. Joseph Wolstenholme, a Methodist minister, [2] who died before she was 14.