British writer Edith Maude Hull was best known for her classic romantic novel.

Supported by a family inheritance that gave her £500 a year, Mary Henrietta Kingsley traveled.

The power of eloquence to move and persuade men is universally recognized.

The Imaginary Invalid is a three-part comedy about a miser who imagines illnesses for himself.

The Cloud upon the Sanctuary is a work of Christian mysticism written in 1909.

The Female Quixote completely inverts the adventures of Don Quixote.

A founding member of the Theosophical Society, and perhaps the first well-known European.

Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom details the escape of Ellen and William Craft.

Described by H. P. Lovecraft as being one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination.

The Boats of the Glen Carrig is horror writer William Hope Hodgson's 1907 novel.

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage was the poem which brought Lord Byron public recognition.

Life is a Dream is a play about free will and fate.

Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays.

The Monk: A Romance tells of the spectacular downfall of a Spanish monk. Ambroio lusts.

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family.

H. P. Blavatsky, or Madame Blavatsky, was a founder of Theosophy.

Trips to the Moon collects together three works by the Assyrian master of rhetoric and satire.

This book takes Beauty as already existing and enjoyed, and seeks to analyze and account.

Opening with the famous line This is the saddest story I have ever heard.

When Thomas Paine first anonymously published his series of pamphlets titles Common Sense.