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Thomas Moore
b. 5-28-1779; Dublin, Ireland
d. 2-25-1852; Sloperton
Poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer Thomas Moore is now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He is considered Ireland's Bard, a corresponding honor of Robert Burns to Scotland.
• Thomas Moore at Amazon
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Hannah More
b. 2-2-1745; Fishponds, Bristol, England
d. 9-7-1833; Bristol
Hannah More, a teacher, religious writer, philanthropist and social reformer, was one of the most influential women of her day. She associated with the intellectual society of England: actor and playwright David Garrick, painter Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Johnson, Edmund Burke, and Elizabeth Montagu (Blue Stocking Society); later she influenced abolitionist William Wilberforce. She was accused of “Methodist” tendencies for teaching farm children to read because workers who could read would would leave the farms and that would be “fatal to agriculture”.
• Hannah More: The First Victorian
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William Morris
b. 3-24-1833; Walthamstow, England
d. 10-3-1896; London
William Morris, an English writer, artist, socialist, activist, leader in the English Arts & Crafts Movement, and non-practicing architect, also founded the Kelmscott Press in order to produce examples of improved printing and book design.
The poem illustration is from Love is Enough, or The Freeing of Pharamond: A Morality (1872) by William Morris incorporating a Kelmscott Press typeface.
The Music VI
Love is enough; cherish life that abideth,
Lest ye die ere ye know him, and curse and misname him;
for who knows in what ruin of all hope he hideth,
On what wings of the terror of darkness be rideth?
And what is the joy of man's life that ye blame him
for his bliss grown a sword, and his rest grown a fire?
• News from Nowhere and Other Writings, William Morris
• Garden of Delight print
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Mourning Dove
b. 1888; Idaho
d. 8-8-1936
Mourning Dove was the pen name of Christine Quintasket, an Okanogan Indian of the Northwest coast. She put her mission education to use in the service of her native culture by becoming an important chronicler of the life ways of her people, thus preserving knowledge that might have been lost.
Mourning Dove’s best-known book, Coyote Stories, first published in 1933, is one of the first collections of native stories that was gathered and transcribed by a Native American.
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