The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter by Hazel Gaynor tells of Grace Darling, a celebrated heroine, and her ancestor a hundred years later.
On 21 September, 1886 British novelist H. G. Wells was born in Kent, England. Known as “the Father of Futurism” but mostly as “the Father of Science Fiction”
Elinor Morton Wylie (7 September, 1885 – 16 December, 1928) was an American poet and novelist who was very famous during the 1930s – 1940s.
Max Beerbohm was an English writer, and caricaturist. Among his siblings were actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree, author Constance Beerbohm, & explorer Julius Beerbohm
Laurence Binyon (10 August, 1869 – 10 March, 1943) was a poet, dramatist and art scholar from England, winner of the Newdigate Prize for poetry
In 1940 Hitler got himself an atomic bomb however it cannot be delivered by air. Hermann Göring is tasked with delivering the bomb to London, risking his career
John Clare (13 July, 1934 – 20 May 1864) was an English poet who wrote about the English countryside. His works kept being published after his death
Queen Victoria ruled England when she was at the height of her power, a stable world leader, and a powerful player on the world’s stage.
. I especially liked the many anecdotes the authors give along with the points they are trying to make, instead of just giving a few tidbits here and there, or worst, throwing names around.
Bertrand Russell (18 May, 1872 – 2 February, 1970) was a Nobel Prize winning author, philosopher and mathematician.
