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Marie Noël, born Marie-Mélanie Rouget (Auxerre, 16 February 1883 – 23 December 1967) was a French poet, a devout Catholic laywoman and officer of the Légion d'honneur. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She was affectionately called "the Warbler of Auxerre".
John Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs.
John and George Maxwell or the Maxwell Twins (born June 18, 1864) were Gaelic-speaking fishermen and musicians, known for inspiring a character in Rudyard Kipling's story Captains Courageous. The Maxwells were African Canadians who were born in 1864 to George and Mary Jane Maxwell who were originally from Judique. [1] They were two of six ...
John Maxwell (1824–1895) was an Irish businessman, publisher and property developer in London. He is known for his weekly magazines containing fiction and gossip aimed at a working-class audience, which he ran while also cultivating upmarket readers with monthly publications.
John Maxwell Mary Elizabeth Braddon (4 October 1835 – 4 February 1915) was an English popular novelist of the Victorian era . [ 1 ] She is best known for her 1862 sensation novel Lady Audley's Secret , which has also been dramatised and filmed several times.
During the summer of 1937 or 1938, I forget which, Elsa Maxwell gave a party in the South of France, It was a "Beach" party and when she invited Grace Moore, Beatrice Lillie and me she explained that we were to "come as we were" and that it would be "just ourselves". When we arrived (as we were) we discovered that "just ourselves" meant about a ...
John Amos attends the 2014 Doe Fund Benefit & Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City on October 30, 2014. After Amos and Mickelson divorced in 1975, little was known about her private life ...
In 1877 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in succession to Francis Hastings Doyle. He was re-elected to the chair of poetry in 1882, and discharged his duties there and at St Andrews until the end of 1884. [1] He was a friend and correspondent of the Scottish poet and composer, Mary Maxwell Campbell, who lived at St Andrews. [2]