| | | Lancelot Brown, more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener. He is remembered as "the last of the great English... | | Paul Fussell (born March 22, 1924, Pasadena, California, USA) is a cultural and literary historian, and professor emeritus of English literature at... | | Elizabeth Griffith, née Griffith, was an eighteenth-century Irish dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, best known for her edition of S... | | "James Fordyce", DD (b. 1720 in Aberdeen, Scotland, d. 1 October 1796 in Bath, England), was an Eighteenth-century clergyman. He is best known for... | | Jacques Doucet (1853 - 1929) was a French fashion designer, known for his elegant dresses, made with flimy translucent materials in superimposing... | | Marquis Louis-Antoine Caraccioli was a prolific French writer, poet, historian, and biographer long time considered an "enemy of Philosophy"... | | Gordon S. Wood (born 1933) is Alva O. Way University Professor and Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer... | | John Shakespeare (c.1530 - September 1601) was a glover, farmer and alderman in Stratford-upon-Avon. He was the father of William Shakespeare. As... | | Robert Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on eighteenth century France. He graduated... | | Anna Laetitia Barbauld (June 20, 1743-March 9, 1825) was a prominent eighteenth-century British poet, essayist, and children's author. As a "woman... | |