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Public domain poetry and public domain stories from the literary greats of yesteryear. |
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1865 - 1940 Stories and Essay Listing Within this area you will be able to read, and give your thoughts on the poetry listed. Please, if you find an error, let me know. Read More About Laurence Alma-Tadema below the list
About: Laurence Alma-Tadema  Laurence Alma-Tadema was an English novelist and poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who worked in many genres. Eldest daughter of the Dutch painter Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836–1912) and his first wife Marie-Pauline Gressin, she was born in Brussels. Her stepmother, Lady Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema (1852–1909) and sister Anna were also noted artists. Laurence Alma-Tadema lived in "The Fair Haven", Wittersham, Kent, and she involved herself with music and plays with the villagers and their children, going on to construct a building to seat a hundred people, used for musical concerts and plays, which she named "Hall of Happy Hours". She never married and died in a nursing home in London in 1940. Her first novel, Love's Martyr, was published in 1886. In addition to her own collections of stories and poems, which she often published herself, Alma-Tadema wrote two novels, songs and works on drama; she also made translations. The Orlando Project says about Alma-Tadema's writing that the "characteristic tone is one of intense emotion, but in prose and verse she has the gift of compression". She contributed widely to periodicals, notably The Yellow Book, and also edited one herself. Some of Alma-Tadema's plays were successfully produced in Germany. Reference:- Wikipedia
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