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Dickinson, Emily
1830 - 1886
The American poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father was a successful lawyer. She studied art...
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Chacón, Dulce
1954 - 2003
Spanish novelist, poet and playwright born in Zafra, Extremadura, in western Spain to an aristocratic, right wing family....
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Staël, Germaine de
1766 - 1817
Germaine Staël von Holstein, best known as Madame de Staël, was a French author born in Paris as Ann Louise Germaine N...
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Montaigne, Michel de
1533 - 1592
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born in a wealthy merchant family that had lived for generations in the ancestral castle...
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