Emily Zarevich

In the hot summer of 1826, the British people—including science fiction author, Mary Shelley—embraced a fake and frozen Roger Dodsworth.

Marginalized in early histories of Modernist literature, Hastings left a mark on one of the most influential literary magazines of the early twentieth century.

Neither supernatural forces nor Soviet censors were able to suppress individual creativity and determination.

The gritty dramas of the 1950s and 1960s revealed the bitterness and disillusionment of Britain's working class youth.

Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper worked within the constraints of Victorian society, building a writing career and a relationship under an assumed name.

“Lesya Ukrainka” was a carefully considered pseudonym for a writer who left behind a legacy of poems, plays, essays and activism for the Ukrainian language.

The two-time Nobel winner helped preserve her native Polish language, and undertook her education, at a time when these acts were potentially treasonous.

Madame von Meck offered Tchaikovsky her generous patronage, but spoke to him only through letters.

The author of the English literary classic Wuthering Heights died tragically young, leaving her second novel unfinished.