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Roger Ascham
c. 1515; Yorkshire, England
d. 12-23-1568

Scholar and didactic (instructional) writer Roger Ascham is noted for his prose style in promotion of the vernacular, and his theories of education. He acted as tutor to the future Elizabeth I in Greek and Latin, and served in her administration.

• A Memoir of Roger Ascham / With an Introduction by James H. Carlisle

Daisy Ashford
née Margaret Mary Julia Ashford
b. 4-7-1881; England
d. 1-15-1972

Daisy Ashford is most remembered for her The Young Visiters (sic), written when she was nine years old. The story, about upper-class, late 19th century society in Victorian England, was published in 1919 after she found the notebook tucked away in a drawer. ... FYI - Miss Ashford had dictated her first story to her father when she was four.

Isaac Asimov
b. 1-2-1920; Russia
d. 4-6-1992; NYC

Isaac Asimov, considered a master of the science fiction genre, was also a biochemist. His most famous works are the Foundation Series, the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series.

Asimov was also VP of Mensa International and The American Humanist Association.

• I, Robot poster
• Asimov's Chronology of the World

Miguel Ángel Asturias
b. 10-19-1899; Guatemala
d. 6-9-1974; Vienna

Margot Asquith
b. 2-4-1864; Scotland
d. 7-28-1945

Margot Asquith,
(née Emma Alice Margaret Tennant), second wife of H H Asquith (British PM 1908), Married 1894

Margot Asquith quote:
• “Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.”

Mary Astell
b. 11-12-1666; Newcastle upon Tyne, England
d. 5-11-1731; breast cancer

Considered the first English feminist, author Mary Astell advocated an education for women that would extend their choices beyond being only either a mother, or a nun.

Astell's best known books, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest (1694) and A Serious Proposal, Part II (1697), were outlines of a new type of institution, a protected environment, for women to assist in providing women with both religious and secular education.

Mary Astell quotes ~
• “If all Men are born free, how is it that all Women are born Slaves?”
• “Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.”

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
b. 10-30-1857; San Francisco
d. 6-14-1948

Gertrude Atherton is most remembered for her short stories and novels on the history of California.

• The Californians by Gertrude Atherton

W. H. Auden
b. 2-21-1907; England
d. 9-29-1973; Vienna

The central themes of W. H. Auden's poetry are “love, politics and citizenship, religion and morals, and the relationship between unique human beings and the anonymous, impersonal world of nature.”

Apollinaire quotes
• “Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.”
• “Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.”
• “Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”

• Voice of the Poet: W.H. Auden

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Marie-Catherine, Countess d'Aulnoy
b. 1650/51; France
d. 1-4-1705

Madame d'Aulnoy, remembered today as the originator of the term “fairy tale”, recorded stories as they may have been told in her famous literary salon.

• The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy

Jane Austen
b. 12-16-1775; England
d. 7-18-1817

Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball, and when thay next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. — Pride and Prejudice

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