Mary Louise Booth, one of the most celebrated literary women of the nineteenth century, edited Harper's Bazar from its founding on 2 November 1867 until her death in 1889. Under her meticulous guidance the magazine, subtitled "A Repository...

It is unfortunate that Mary Martha Sherwood is chiefly remembered today for The History of the Fairchild Family (1818), a book that has become infamous in the late twentieth century for extended deathbed scenes, rotting corpses, and other ...

For more than twenty years Mary Meeke was one of the most popular and prolific writers of Gothic fiction for Minerva Press. Following the model of Ann Radcliffe, she wrote more than thirty novels with well-plotted, moral stories, in most o...

Although she wrote only eight novels in a career that extended from 1943 to 1982, Mary Norton is rightfully considered one of the major midcentury British children's authors. The Borrowers (1952), winner of the distinguished Carnegie Medal...

(The following essay discusses Caresse Crosby and her second husband, Harry Crosby.) Of all the Americans who lived in Paris during the twenties few were more vociferous than Harry Crosby in his rebellion against American puritanism, parti...

Mary White Rowlandson holds a secure if modest place in Colonial American literary history as the author of the first and deservedly best-known New England Indian captivity narrative and, except for sixteenth-century Spanish accounts, the ...

A freeborn Jamaican of Creole descent, Mary Jane Grant Seacole enjoyed a remarkable life in traveling to the Bahamas, Haiti, Cuba, England, and the Isthmus of Panama. She is best known, however, for her travels in the Crimea during the Cri...

Mary Sidney was the most important non-royal woman writer and patron in Elizabethan England. Without appearing to transgress the strictures against women's writing, she composed a sizable body of work, evading criticism by focusing on reli...

Mary Theresa Vidal lived in Australia for less than five years, yet she is remembered as an Australian writer. She was one of the first authors to write fiction about Australia, though her work belongs to the English tradition of the moral...

Mary Wesley is a novelist known for her controversial subjects and sarcastic, often darkly humorous style. Although she considers herself a literary late bloomer-she began her career in writing at the age of fifty-seven-she has been a prol...

Mary Wollstonecraft's literary and political reputation as one of the most important voices at the center of British feminism has never been more secure. Her early reviewing and educational writing did not gain her a wide audience, but wit...

Only seldom does poetry--particularly classical poetry--make front-page news in Japan, but it did briefly in the spring of 1980 when a man named Reizei Tamet announced that he would soon be opening the Kyoto storehouses of his family to sh...

Linton R. Massey is identified with the William Faulkner collections at the University of Virginia-those that he assembled and donated and those that came to the university largely through his friendship with Faulkner. But he should also b...

Best known for his highly acclaimed autobiographical work, Last Stands: Notes from Memory (1982), Hilary Masters is an accomplished novelist, essayist, short-story writer, and memoirist. A realist and a regionalist, Masters follows in the ...

Ibuse Masuji's writing career spanned most of this century. Through seventy years of his remarkably consistent literary work, Ibuse contributed significantly to most literary genres--short stories, novellas, novels, poems, essays, and tran...

Mateja Matevski is a central figure in the second generation of Macedonian poet-intellectuals who came to maturity with their nation in the 1950s and shaped the main directions of its contemporary literature. The founding generation of Mac...

Annie Matheson wrote four volumes of well-received meditative and lyric poetry that appeared in the 1890s, two collections of essays and poems published in 1909 and 1912, and a final retrospective collection of poetry in 1918. She also con...

Cornelius Mathews (28 October 1817-6 April 1889), an ardent literary nationalist and social critic and a central figure in the group of young nationalistic writers known as "Young America," is remembered today less for any of his works tha...

A prolific writer of both verse and prose and an important intellectual force in France for more than forty years, Pierre Emmanuel ranks among the leading poets of the mid twentieth century because of the variety of his inspiration, his sk...

The screen credits of June Mathis, one of the major figures of the silent film, include some of the best-known films ever made: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Blood and Sand (1922), and Ben-Hur (1925). She was also personally ...

Matilde Serao's success as a novelist became most evident in the last twenty years of the nineteenth century and in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century. Benedetto Croce, the most influential Italian literary critic of that tim...

Matt Cohen has emerged as one of the most prolific experimental prose writers of his generation in Canada. His international reputation, based on the translations of many of his stories into German, French, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, and t...

A master of both poetry and prose, Matthew Arnold remains significant today for the same reasons that the Victorian age as a whole retains significance. The Victorians—Arnold chief among them—struggled with issues that confront...

The English novelist and playwright Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818), known as Monk Lewis, a popular writer during the early 19th century, is remembered today only as the author of a Gothic novel, "The Monk." Matthew G. Lewis was born in ...

Occasionally history produces an individual who embodies the virtues of his time. Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury, was not merely a product of the Renaissance and Reformation of England during the sixteenth century. He contributed...