henry labouchère
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Walt Whitman
Walter "Walt" Whitman (1819 - 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the...
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Frank Harris
Frank Harris (1855 - 1931) was an Irish-American editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day.Born in Ireland, he emigrated to the United States early in life, working in a variet...
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of Londons most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigram...
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, h...
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André Gide
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Max Beerbohm
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm (1872 - 1956) was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist best known today for his 1911 novel Zuleika Dobson.more...
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William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two...
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Edward Carson
Edward Henry Carson, Baron Carson, PC, PC (Ire), KC (9 February 1854 – 22 October 1935), from 1900 to 1921 known as Sir Edward Carson, was an Irish unionist politician, barrister and judge. From Dublin, he became the leader of the Irish Unionist Alliance ...
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Richard Ellmann
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Robbie Ross
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Maurice Hall
The gay protagonist in E.M. Forsters Maurice.more...
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Alec Scudder
The eponyms working-class love interest in E.M. Forsters Maurice.more...
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Clive Durham
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Walter Pater
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Lionel Johnson
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George Alexander
Sir George Alexander (19 June 1858 - 15 March 1918), born George Alexander Gibb Samson, was an English actor and theatre manager. He was born in Reading, Berkshire, and began acting in amateur theatricals in 1875. Four years later, he embarked on a profes...
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More Adey
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Constance Lloyd
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Edward Shelley
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George Ives
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John Gray
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.John Gray is an American relationship counselor, lecturer, and author. In 1969, he began a nine-year association with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi before beginning his career...
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Archibald Primrose 5th Earl Of Rosebery
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, KG, PC (1847 - 1929) was a British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister. Between the death of his father, in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl, in 1868, he was kno...
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Oscar Browning
Oscar Browning (17 January 1837 – 6 October 1923) was an English writer, historian, and educational reformer. His greatest achievement was the cofounding, along with Henry Sidgwick, of the Cambridge University Day Training College in 1891. This was one of...
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Reginald Turner
Reginald "Reggie" Turner (2 June 1869 - 7 December 1938) was an author, an aesthete and a member of the circle of Oscar Wilde. He worked as a journalist and wrote twelve novels, and his correspondence has been published, but he is best known as one of the...
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Robert Sherard
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Willie Hughes
William Hughes is one potential candidate for the person on whom the "Fair Youth" of Shakespeares Sonnets is based (if the sonnets are autobiographical). The "Fair Youth" is a handsome, effeminate young man to whom the poet addresses many passionate...
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Henry Labouchère
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Cyril Graham
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the B...
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Dorian Gray
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W.h. Auden
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907 - 1973), who published as W.H. Auden, was an Anglo-American poet, born in England, later an American citizen, regarded by many critics as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. His work is noted for its stylistic and tech...