Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and world literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language is often referred to as the "language of Molière".
Molière, oikea nimi Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, oli ranskalainen näytelmäkirjailija, ohjaaja ja näyttelijä. Hän on kirjoittanut etenkin komedioita. Hänen aikalaisensa ja maanmiehensä Pierre Corneille ja Jean Racine kirjoittivat vakavahenkisempiä näytelmiä.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, dit Molière, baptisé le 15 janvier 1622 à l'église Saint-Eustache de Paris et mort le soir du 17 février 1673 à son domicile de la rue de Richelieu, est le plus célèbre des comédiens et dramaturges de langue française.
Molly Elliot Seawell, an early American historian and writer, was a descendant of the Seawells of Virginia and a niece of President John Tyler. Reared upon a large plantation, her education included being "turned loose in a library of good books", her father's home containing the best literature of the 18th century. She read English classics, and was especially fond of poetry. She did not read a novel until after she was 17, and the first was Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield. Her three amusements were reading, riding and piano-playing. Her father, a prominent lawyer, died just as Seawell reached adulthood.
Alice Mona Alison Caird was an English novelist and essayist. Her feminist writings and views caused controversy in the late 19th century. She also advocated for animal rights and civil liberties, and contributed to advancing the interests of the New Woman in the public sphere.
Moncure Daniel Conway was an American abolitionist minister and radical writer. At various times Methodist, Unitarian, and a Freethinker, he descended from patriotic and patrician families of Virginia and Maryland but spent most of the final four decades of his life abroad in England and France, where he wrote biographies of Edmund Randolph, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Paine and his own autobiography. He led freethinkers in London's South Place Chapel, now Conway Hall.
Montague Marsden Glass was a British-American Jewish lawyer and writer of short stories, plays and film scripts. His greatest success came with the creation of his fictional duo Abe Potash and Morris ("Mawrus") Perlmutter, who appeared in three books, a play, and several films.
Charles-Louis de Secondat, La Brèden ja Montesquieun paroni oli kuuluisa filosofi ja valistuksen ajan kirjailija. Hän oli koulutukseltaan juristi, mutta varallisuutensa ansiosta pystyi keskittymään kirjoittamiseen.
Montgomery Schuyler AIA, was a highly influential critic, journalist and editorial writer in New York City who wrote about and influenced art, literature, music and architecture during the city's "Gilded Age." He was active as a journalist for over forty years but is principally noted as a highly influential architecture critic, and advocate of modern designs and defender of the skyscraper.
