Theo Gift, novelist, was born at Thelton Hall, Norfolk, daughter of Thomas HAVERS and Ellen, née Ruding. In 1854 she moved with her parents to the Falkland Islands, where her father was manager of the Falkland Islands Company. Her mother died in Stanley and her father married the governess. The family moved to Montevideo in 1861, where her father died in 1870, whereupon the family returned to England. Dorothy Havers began to write stories for magazines and published her first novel in 1874. Her early novels are contemporary romances and the influence of her family's Catholicism is more pronounced than in her later works. As she wrote under the name of Theo Gift, some reviewers believed she was a man. Maid Ellice, which she wrote in 1878, is semi-autobiographical, about an orphaned girl from Montevideo moving to England and the contrast with her upbringing in Uruguay. On 22 April 1879 she married George Simonds Boulger, an eminent botanist. After marriage she wrote another semi autobiographical work, Lil Lorimer, and a book for children, Cape Town Dicky, illustrated by her sister Alice HAVERS. During the 1890s she wrote two books of fiction for girls which are set in the Falkland Islands: The Little Colonists (1890) and An Island Princess (1893). These give a vivid picture of the isolated life of the colonists and careful descriptions of landscape and flora. She does not evade difficult topics like alcoholism or over-zealous missionaries. The stories celebrate practical, confident and independent minded young women and indeed a determination to speak up for working women is a feature of all her work. She did not publish after 1901. She died in South Kensington on 22 July 1923.

Tradition ranks Napoleon Stanisław Adam Ludwig Zygmunt Krasiński, a Polish count, with Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki as one of three national bards of great Romantic poets, who influenced national consciousness during the period of political bondage of Poland. A mother bore Krasiński, a son, to Wincenty Krasiński, a general and count of the aristocratic family. He studied law at Warsaw University and in Geneva, where he met Adam Mickiewicz. Krasiński compared as more sociopolitical conservative than the other two poets. He published much of his work anonymously. People best know him for his philosophical messianist ideas. His drama, Nie-boska Komedia ( The Un-Divine Comedy , 1835), portrays the tragedy of a new order of Communism and democracy, defeating an old-world aristocracy in a poetic prophecy of class conflict and of October revolution of Russia. Irydion (1836), his drama, deals in the context of Christian ethics with the struggle of a subjugated nation against its oppressor. Gothic fiction and Dante Alighieri strongly influenced frenetic plots that fill writings of Krasiński from the period. The extreme face, such as hate, desperation, or solitude, of human existence most interested this poet, as his most famous works show. Poles also well know Agaj-Han (1834). This historical-poetic novel resembled not the popular historical novels, such as those of Walter Scott, in Poland. Macabre motives, death and fratricide fill Agaj-Han. Upon human life still exists tragic fate. Later from 1844 to 1848, Krasiński calls to love and charity, according to Christianism, as he wrote Psalmy Przyszłości (Psalms of the Future). His muse for many years was Delfina Potocka, countess and likewise a friend of Kate Chopin, with whom he conducted a romance from 1838 to 1846. Later, she continued his friend, and he wrote for her Sen Cezary (published 1840) and Przedświt (Dawn's Approach, published 1843). On 26 July 1843, Krasiński married Eliza Branicka, Polish countess, who died in 1876.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of "gross indecency" with other men. After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry. He never returned to Ireland or Britain, and died in poverty.

Louis Cha, GBM, OBE (born 6 February 1924), better known by his pen name Jin Yong (金庸, sometimes read and/or written as "Chin Yung"), is a modern Chinese-language novelist. Having co-founded the Hong Kong daily Ming Pao in 1959, he was the paper's first editor-in-chief. Cha's fiction, which is of the wuxia ("martial arts and chivalry") genre, has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, and the United States. His 15 works written between 1955 and 1972 earned him a reputation as one of the finest wuxia writers ever. He is currently the best-selling Chinese author alive; over 100 million copies of his works have been sold worldwide (not including unknown number of bootleg copies). Cha's works have been translated into English, French, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai, Burmese, Malay and Indonesian. He has many fans abroad as well, owing to the numerous adaptations of his works into films, television series, comics and video games. 金庸，大紫荊勳賢，OBE（英語：Louis Cha Leung-yung，1924年3月10日－2018年10月30日），本名查良鏞，浙江海寧人，祖籍江西婺源，1948年移居香港。自1950年代起，以筆名「金庸」創作多部膾炙人口的武俠小說，包括《射鵰英雄傳》、《神鵰俠侶》、《鹿鼎記》等，歷年來金庸筆下的著作屢次改編為電視劇、電影等，對華人影視文化可謂貢獻重大，亦奠定其成為華人知名作家的基礎。金庸早年於香港創辦《明報》系列報刊，他亦被稱為「香港四大才子」之一。 Source: https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E9%87... Associated Names: * Jin Yong * 金庸 (Chinese Profile) * กิมย้ง (Thai Profile)