Gary Wallace

Harriet Beecher Stowe was born into an era in which women were assigned an inferior role. But through her writing, and her most famous work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Stowe was influential in the abolitionist cause.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born on 14 June 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. She was the [...]

Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat was born on 22 March 1910 in Liverpool, England, the fourth child of Keith and Ada Monsarrat. His birth certificate records his surname as Montserrat as this was his mother’s preferred spelling of the name.

Monsarrat referred to his time at school, first at St Christopher’s School for Boys in [...]

Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was born on 1 September 1875 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, the son of George and Mary Burroughs. He was educated at various schools, moving around to avoid outbreaks of disease.

In 1891, at the age of fifteen, Burroughs spent six months in Idaho on the cattle ranch owned [...]