George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist who became one of the leading dramatists in English. He wrote plays s…
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Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer, playwright, and wit who became the best-known voice of the Aesthetic Movement in Britain. He wrote plays…
Loie Fuller (1862–1928) was an American dancer, choreographer, and stage inventor. She became famous in Paris in the 1890s for her Serpentine Dance ,…
Walter Damrosch (1862–1950) was a German-born American conductor and composer. He grew up in a musical family, took part in the German opera seasons …
Ellen Terry (1847–1928) was one of the most celebrated actresses of the English-speaking stage. She began as a child performer, rose to fame in the 1…
Edward MacDowell (1860–1908) was an American composer and pianist. He studied in Paris and Germany, wrote piano pieces such as To a Wild Rose and tw…
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) was a German composer, pianist, and conductor, one of the most gifted musicians of the Romantic age. He wrote the overt…
Walter Pater (1839–1894) was an English essayist, critic, and Oxford fellow. His prose, careful and musical, made him one of the most admired and mos…
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman architect and engineer who lived in the first century BC. He is known for one surviving work, De architectura , u…
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877) was an English scientist, inventor, and scholar who helped to invent photography. In the 1830s he found ways to …