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Bessie Anderson Stanley (born Caroline Elizabeth Anderson; March 25, 1879 – October 2, 1952) was an American writer, the author of the poem "Success" ("What is success?" or "What Constitutes Success?"), which is often incorrectly attributed [1] to Ralph Waldo Emerson [2] [3] or Robert Louis Stevenson. [4]
Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland on 15 January 1803, Marjorie was the third child of the Kirkcaldy accountant James Fleming (died c. 1840) and his wife Isabella (daughter of James Rae), [2] also the name of her elder sister and of her cousin and friend Miss Crauford (variously spelled). Her uncle Thomas Fleming was minister of Kirkcaldy parish ...
Kate Louise Brown (May 8, 1857 [1] – December 31, 1921) was a children's educator and author who wrote 17 works in a total of 41 publications, [2] in addition to poems, songs, and magazine articles. [2] She is best known for the books, The Plant Baby and Its Friends, Little People, Alice and Tom, and Stories in Songs. [1]
Cover of The Napoleon of Notting Hill. Chesterton, Gilbert Keith (1900), Greybeards at Play (poetry), London: R. Brimley Johnson. ——— (1900), The Wild Knight and Other Poems (poetry).
The Lamplighter is a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson contained in his 1885 collection A Child's Garden of Verses. This poem may be autobiographical. Stevenson was sickly growing up (probably tuberculosis), thus "when I am stronger" may refer to his hope of recovery. Further, his illness isolated him, so the loneliness expressed in the poem would ...
TLC; Shutterstock Keeping her head up. Christine Brown shared a video of herself reading an inspiring poem after Janelle Brown confirmed her split from Kody Brown. Where Do Sister Wives’ Meri ...
Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter.
Meri Brown is giving an update on where she currently stands with her former sister wife Robyn Brown. "Robyn and I don't really talk a lot," Meri, 53, admits to PEOPLE exclusively.