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a Maine woman who, in 1851, published a memoir called The Female Volunteer; Or the Life and Wonderful Adventures of Miss Eliza Allen, A Young Lady of Eastport, Maine. In it, she described her life. As a teenager, she was not allowed to marry the man whom she loved, and so as a result, she disguised herself as a man and had many adventures, including fighting and being wounded in the Mexican-American War. She was also known as Eliza Billings (the surname of her husband).
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William Wordsworth1770, Apr 71787
 
18471850, Apr 23
 a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Ag...
Robert Montgomery Bird1806, Feb 51827
 
18471854, Jan 23
 an American novelist, playwright, and physician. In 1828, Bird's play Pelopidas won a $1000 prize...
Christianus Petrus Eliza Robide van der Aa1791, Oct 71811
 
18481851, May 14
 a Dutch jurist and author. In the Volksbode, which he edited and almost singlehandedly wrote from...
Nikolai Gogol1809, Mar 191828
 
18481852, Feb 21
 a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin. Although Gogol was considered by his contemporaries one ...
Horace Wells1815, Jan 211836
 
18481848, Jan 24
 an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide ...
Wilhelm Freiherr von Biela1782, Mar 191802
 
18491856, Feb 18
 a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer. In the field of astronomy, he speciali...
Leo von Klenze1784, Feb 291808
 
18491864, Jan 26
 a German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer. Court architect of Bavarian King Ludwig I, ...
William Miller1782, Feb 151809
 
18491849, Dec 20
 an American Baptist preacher who is credited with beginning the mid-19th century North American r...
Edgar Allan Poe1809, Jan 191827
 
18491849, Oct 7
 an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stori...
Joseph Zedner1804, Feb 101830
 
18491871, Oct 10
 a German Jewish bibliographer and librarian. In 1832 he became a tutor in the family of the book-...
Ramon Alcarazunknown1840
 
1849unknown
 an officer in the Mexican Army who wrote many books about the Mexican-American War, including 184...
Mary Shelley1797, Aug 301810
 
18501851, Feb 1
 an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best...
Richard Garnett1789, Jul 251811
 
18501850, Sep 27
 an English philologist (historical linguist), author and librarian at the British Museum. Garnett...
Frederic Bastiat1801, Jun 301818
 
18501850, Dec 24
 a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, Freemason, and member of the French Nat...
Edward Boys17491796
 
18511866
 an English sea captain. In 1803, Boys, when in charge of a prize, was made prisoner by the French...
Lorenz Oken1779, Aug 11802
 
18511851, Aug 11
 a German naturalist, botanist, biologist, and ornithologist. Oken was born Lorenz Okenfuss (Germa...
Sylvester Graham1794, Jul 51828
 
18511851, Sep 11
 a 19th-century Presbyterian minister, was an American dietary reformer, best known for his emphas...
Petar II Petrovic-Njegos1813, Nov 11830
 
18511851, Oct 19
 a Prince-Bishop (vladika) of Montenegro, poet and philosopher whose works are widely considered s...
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen1778, Sep 91796
 
18521852, Jan 13
 a Baltic-German officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, cartographer and explorer, ultimately rose ...
Francois Arago1786, Feb 261804
 
18521853, Oct 2
 a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, freemason, supporter of the carbonari and politici...
Eliza Lanesford Cushing1794, Oct 191820
 
18521886, May 4
 an American-Canadian dramatist, short story writer, and editor. The daughter of Hannah Webster Fo...
John Lloyd Stephens1805, Nov 281834
 
18521852, Oct 13
 an American explorer, writer, and diplomat. He initially entered law practice in New York. After ...
Thomas De Quincey1785, Aug 151802
 
18531859, Dec 8
 an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many...
Maria White Lowell1821, Jul 81839
 
18531853, Oct 27
 an American poet and abolitionist. The same year, Maria White's brother William introduced her to...
Almeida Garrett1799, Feb 41818
 
18541854, Dec 9
 a Portuguese poet, playwright, novelist and politician. He is considered to be the introducer of ...
Thomas Chilton1798, Jul 301819
 
18541854, Aug 15
 a U.S. Representative from Kentucky, a prominent Baptist clergyman, and the ghost writer of Davy ...
Daniel Florence O'Leary18011820
 
18541854
 a military general and aide-de-camp under Simon Bolivar. He was born in Cork, Ireland; his father...
Robert Schumann18101830
 
18541856
 a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest comp...
Leigh Hunt1784, Oct 191801
 
18551859, Aug 28
 an English critic, essayist, poet, and writer. In 1816 he made a mark in English literature with ...
Gerard de Nerval1808, May 221824
 
18551855, Jan 26
 the nom-de-plume of the French writer, poet, essayist and translator Gérard Labrunie. A major fi...
Charlotte Bronte1816, Apr 211846
 
18551855, Mar 31
 an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood...
Thomas Bailey1785, Jul 311820
 
18561856, Oct 23
 an English topographer and miscellaneous writer. In 1845-6 he became proprietor and editor of the...
Eduard Morike1804, Sep 81831
 
18561875, Jun 4
 a German Romantic poet and writer of novellas and novels. His first published work was the novel ...
Carlo Bassi18071833
 
18561856
 an Italian entomologist. Bassi wrote Description du genre Malacogaster in Guérin-Méneville's Ma...
Alexis de Tocqueville1805, Jul 291839
 
18561859, Apr 16
 a French political thinker and historian best known for his works Democracy in America (ap...
Robert Owen1771, May 141792
 
18571858, Nov 17
 a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement...
Delia Bacon1811, Feb 21825
 
18571859, Sep 2
 an American writer of plays and short stories and a sister of the Congregational minister Leonard...
Parley P. Pratt1807, Apr 121830
 
18571857, May 13
 an early leader of the Latter Day Saint movement whose writings became a significant early ninete...
Charles David Badham1805, Aug 271833
 
18571857, Jul 14
 an English writer, physician, entomologist, and mycologist. David Badham seems to have started hi...
John Snow1813, Mar 151837
 
18571858, Jun 16
 an English physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is consi...
Abraham Jacob van der Aa1792, Dec 71839
 
18571857, Mar 21
 a Dutch writer best known for his dictionaries. The Aardrijkskundig Woordenboek der Nederlande...
William Allen Butler1825, Feb 201843
 
18571902, Sep 9
 an American lawyer and writer of poetical satires. He contributed travel writing and comic writin...
Sergey Aksakov1791, Sep 201812
 
18581859, Apr 30
 a 19th-century Russian literary figure remembered for his semi-autobiographical tales of family l...
Charles Hamilton Smith1776, Dec 261787
 
18591859, Sep 21
 an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier, and spy. His military career bega...
Pierre Adolphe Piorry1794, Dec 311816
 
18591879, May 29
 a French physician born in Poitiers. He invented pleximetry (a method for the investigation of in...
Thomas Babington Macaulay1800, Oct 251825
 
18591859, Dec 28
 a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his bo...
King Oscar I of Sweden1799, Jul 41844
 
18591859, Jul 8
  King of Sweden and Norway from 1844 to his death. When, in August 1810, his father Jean-Baptiste...
Lucy Evelina Metcalf Akerman1816, Feb 211850
 
18591874, Feb 21
 an American Unitarian writer. This daughter of Thomas Metcalf was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts...
Crescenzo Alatri18251850
 
18591897, Feb 12
 an Italian writer; born at Rome. He was educated in the Talmud Torah of his native city, and grad...
Henry Butler Stoney18161850
 
18591894
 a British army officer; Major, 40th Regiment and writer.
Lewis Cass1782, Oct 91806
 
18601866, Jun 17
 an American military officer, politician, and statesman. He represented Michigan in the United St...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806, Mar 61838
 
18601861, Jun 29
 one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United S...
Franz Grillparzer1791, Jan 151811
 
18611872, Jan 21
 an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van ...
Taras Shevchenko1814, Mar 91822
 
18611861, Mar 10
 a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, as well as folklorist and ethnogra...
James H. Ward1806, Sep 251823
 
18611861, Jun 27
 the first officer of the United States Navy killed during the American Civil War. He taught cours...
Stephen P. Hill1806, Apr 171832
 
18611884, Sep 15
 a Baptist clergyman who served as Chaplain of the Senate. He was educated at Waterville College, ...
Frederick Rinehart Anspach1815, Jan1841
 
18611867, Sep 16
 a Lutheran clergyman and writer. A sermon delivered on the occasion of the death of Henry Clay wa...
Benjamin Paul Akers1825, Jul 101850
 
18611861, May 21
 Born in Saccarappa, ME. Trained on wood (Maine) and plaster casting (Boston). Wrote articles abou...
George Washington Bethune1805, Mar 181827
 
18621862, Apr 28
 a preacher-pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church. He was an outspoken Democrat in politics, opposed...
Nathaniel Hawthorne1804, Jul 41836
 
18621864, May 19
 an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer. Much of Hawthorne's writing centers ...
Samuel A. Cartwright1793, Nov 31837
 
18621863, May 2
 a physician who practiced in Mississippi and Louisiana in the antebellum United States. Cartwrigh...
Henry David Thoreau1817, Jul 121837
 
18621862, May 6
 an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic...
John Bird Sumner1780, Feb 251848
 
18621862, Feb 6
 a bishop in the Church of England and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1848 to 1862. Sumner's numero...
Andrew Bellunknown1827
 
1863unknown
 a Scottish-born Canadian journalist. He was well educated. His work and life is well known in the...
William Makepeace Thackeray1811, Jul 181829
 
18631863, Dec 24
 an English novelist of the 19th century. He is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanit...
Hans Christian Andersen1805, Apr 21822
 
18641875, Aug 4
 a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, Andersen is...
Heinrich Barth1821, Feb 161844
 
18641865, Nov 25
 a German explorer of Africa and scholar, thought to be one of the greatest European explorers of ...
Edward Everett1794, Apr 111813
 
18651865, Jan 15
 an American politician, pastor, educator, diplomat, and orator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whi...
Richard L. Allen1803, Oct 201833
 
18651869, Sep 22
 an American writer on agriculture. In 1842 he started the American Agriculturist in partnership w...
William Benton Clulow18021835
 
18651882, Apr 16
 an English dissenting minister, tutor and writer. Clulow was a native of Leek, Staffordshire, and...
William Gilmore Simms1806, Apr 171825
 
18661870, Jun 11
 a poet, novelist and historian from the American South. His writings achieved great prominence du...
Menachem Mendel Schneersohn1789, Sep 91831
 
18661866, Mar 17
 an Orthodox rabbi, leading 19th century posek, and the third Rebbe (spiritual leader) of the Chab...
Elizabeth Caroline Grey17981820
 
18671869
 a prolific English author of over 30 romance novels, silver fork novels, Gothic novels, sensation...
Henry Timrod1829, Dec 81848
 
18671867, Oct 7
 an American poet, often called the poet laureate of the Confederacy. He took a position with a la...
George L. Aiken1830, Dec 191852
 
18671876, Apr 27
 a nineteenth-century American playwright and actor who is best known for writing the most popular...
Antoine-Henri Jomini1779, Mar 61798
 
18691869, Mar 24
 a Swiss officer who served as a general in the French and later in the Russian service, and one o...
Stephen C. Massettunknown1840
 
1869unknown
 San Francisco's first entertainer, Stephen C. Massett, was the true Bohemian type. He was an arti...
John P. Kennedy1795, Oct 251819
 
18701870, Aug 18
 an American novelist and Whig politician who served as United States Secretary of the Navy from J...
Charles Dickens1812, Feb 71832
 
18701870, Jun 9
 an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characte...
Gorham Dummer Abbott1807, Sep 31837
 
18701874, Aug 3
 an American clergyman, educator, and author. He was a significant figure in the movement to suppl...
Mary Fairfax Somerville1780, Dec 261811
 
18721872, Nov 29
 a Scottish science writer and polymath, at a time when women's participation in science was disco...
Charles Darwin1809, Feb 121827
 
18721882, Apr 19
 an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution...
George Catlin1796, Jul 261830
 
18721872, Dec 23
 an American painter, author, and traveler who specialized in portraits of Native Americans in the...
Anyos Jedlik1800, Jan 111817
 
18731895, Dec 13
 a Hungarian inventor, engineer, physicist, and Benedictine priest. He was also a member of the Hu...
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803, May 251825
 
18731873, Jan 18
 an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading ...
William Lloyd Garrison1805, Dec 101830
 
18731879, May 23
 was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer. He is best kn...
Ivar Aasen1813, Aug 51841
 
18731896, Sep 23
 a Norwegian philologist, lexicographer, playwright, and poet. He is best known for having assembl...
William Cullen Bryant1794, Nov 31815
 
18741878, Jun 12
 American romantic poet, journalist and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. "Thanatopsi...
Eugene Viollet-le-Duc1814, Jan 271830
 
18741879, Sep 17
 a French architect and theorist, famous for his interpretive "restorations" of medieval buildings...
John Stevens Cabot Abbott1805, Sep 191834
 
18761877, Jun 17
 an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer. He was a voluminous writer of books on Chr...
Tom Taylor1817, Oct 191843
 
18761880, Jul 12
 an English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of Punch magazine. He wrote ...
Dora Greenwell1821, Dec 61848
 
18761882, Mar 29
 an English poet. She published her first volume of poems in 1848 through William Pickering, after...
Pyotr Vyazemsky1792, Jul 231813
 
18771878, Nov 22
 a leading personality of the Golden Age of Russian poetry. In the 1820s Vyazemsky was the most co...
Gustave Flaubert1821, Dec 121842
 
18771880, May 8
 a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary re...
Thomas Carlyle1795, Dec 41821
 
18781881, Feb 5
 a Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher. Considered one of the ...
Zachariah Allen1795, Sep 151815
 
18791882, Mar 17
 an American textile manufacturer, scientist, lawyer, writer, inventor and civil leader from Provi...
Fernan Caballero1796, Dec 241821
 
18791877, Apr 7
 the pseudonym adopted from the name of a village in the province of Ciudad Real by the Spanish no...
Jacob Abbott1803, Nov 141825
 
18791879, Oct 31
 an American writer of children's books. He was a prolific author, writing juvenile fiction, brief...
Orson Pratt1811, Sep 191831
 
18791881, Oct 3
 an American mathematician and religious leader who was an original member of the Quorum of Twelve...
Giuseppe Garibaldi1807, Jul 41833
 
18791882, Jun 2
 an Italian general, politician and nationalist who played a large role in the history of Italy. H...
Charles Reade1814, Jun 81835
 
18791884, Apr 11
 an English novelist and dramatist, best known for The Cloister and the Hearth. Reade began his li...
Ralph Waldo Emerson18031836
 
18791882
 an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th c...
John H. Van Evrie18141842
 
18791896
 an American physician and defender of slavery, best known as the editor of the Weekly Day Book an...
Benjamin Disraeli1804, Dec 211826
 
18801881, Apr 19
 a British politician and writer, who twice served as Prime Minister. He played a central role in ...
William Swan Plumer1802, Jul 261834
 
18801880, Oct 22
 an American clergyman, theologian and author who was recognized as an intellectual leader of the ...
Robert Tomes1817, Mar 271840
 
18801882
 American physician, diplomat and writer. Beginning to write around 1853, Tomes gradually relinqui...
Leonard Bacon1802, Feb 191825
 
18811881, Dec 24
 an American Congregational preacher and writer. He held the pulpit of the First Church New Haven ...
John William Draper1811, May 51832
 
18811882, Jan 4
 an English-American scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer. He is...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807, Feb 271824
 
18821882, Mar 24
 an American poet and educator whose works include Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and E...
Gottfried Kinkel1815, Aug 111836
 
18821882, Nov 12
 a German poet also noted for his revolutionary activities and his escape from a Prussian prison i...
Karl Marx1818, May 51836
 
18821883, Mar 14
 a philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia t...
Niceto de Zamacois18201846
 
18821885
 a Spanish-born Mexican historian, novelist, poet and journalist. He emigrated to Mexico in 1840. ...
Amos Bronson Alcott17991823
 
18841888
 an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways...
Thomas William Webb1807, Dec 141829
 
18851885, May 19
 a British astronomer. Through his career T. W. Webb served as a clergyman at various places inclu...
Dion Boucicault1820/22, Dec 261834
 
18851890, Sep 18
 an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. His first play, A Legend of the Devil'...
Sarah T. Bolton1814, Dec 81828
 
18861893, Aug 5
 an American poet and activist. She has been called Indiana's "pioneer poet" and is best known for...
Camilo Castelo Branco1825, Mar 161851
 
18861890, Jun
 a prolific Portuguese writer of the 19th century, having produced over 260 books (mainly novels, ...
Alexandre Dumas the Younger1824, Jul 271847
 
18871895, Nov 27
  a French writer and dramatist, best known for Camille (a.k.a. The Lady of the Camellias). He was...
James Freeman Clarke1810, Apr 41833
 
18881888, Jun 8
 an American theologian and author. In 1839 he returned to Boston where he and his friends establi...
Theodore Sedgwick Fay1807, Feb 101828
 
18891898, Nov 17
 a writer from the United States who spent much of his life in Germany. Fay initially worked as a ...
John Ruskin1819, Feb 81829
 
18891900, Jan 20
 the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, water...
Robert Browning1812, May 71833
 
18891889, Dec 12
 an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremo...
James Russell Lowell1819, Feb 221840
 
18891891, Aug 12
 an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets...
Henry Walter Bates1825, Feb 81843
 
18891892, Feb 16
 an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals. H...
Thomas Woolner1825, Dec 171843
 
18891892, Oct 7
 an English sculptor and poet who was one of the founder-members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...
Napoleon Aubin1812, Nov 91829
 
18901890, Jun 12
 a Canadian journalist, publisher, playwright, and scientist. Born in Geneva, Aubin sailed to the ...
Richard Burton1821, Mar 191842
 
18901890, Oct 20
 a British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, cartographer, ethnologi...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson18091827
 
18911892
  Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one...
Samuel Baker1821, Jun 81846
 
18911893, Dec 30
 a British explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He a...
John Greenleaf Whittier1807, Dec 171826
 
18921892, Sep 7
 an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently...
Francis Parkman Jr.1823, Sep 161846
 
18921893, Nov 8
 an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky...
William L. Manly1820, Apr 61849
 
18941903, Feb 5
 an American pioneer of the mid-19th century. He was first a fur hunter, a guide of Westward bound...
Daniel Kirkwood1814, Sep 271839
 
18951895, Jun 11
 an American astronomer. Kirkwood was born in Harford County, Maryland to John and Agnes (née Hop...
Oluf Andreas Aabel1825, Oct 91847
 
18951895, Dec 24
 a Norwegian priest and writer. He translated Georg Benedikt Winer's Grammatik des neutestament...
Frederick Law Olmsted1822, Apr 261850
 
18951903, Aug 28
 an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is popul...
John Greenleaf Adams18101831
 
18971897
 co-editor with Dr. E.H. Chapin of the Universalist Hymns for Christian Devotion and alone for the...
George Dod Armstrong1813, Sep 151832
 
18991899, May 11
 a Presbyterian minister and author born in Mendham, New Jersey. In 1855 his family was nearly des...
Philip James Bailey1816, Apr 221834
 
19011902, Sep 6
 an English Spasmodic poet, best known as the author of his one voluminous poem, Festus, fi...
William Powell Frith1819, Jan 191838
 
19021909, Nov 9
  an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the V...
Elizabeth Chase Allen1832, Oct 91845
 
19021911, Aug 7
 an American author, journalist and poet. She began to write at the age of fifteen, under the pen ...
Andrew Graham1815, Apr 81848
 
19031907, Nov 5
 an Irish astronomer/computer. He discovered the asteroid 9 Metis in 1848 whilst employed at Markr...
Leo Tolstoy1828, Aug 281852
 
19101910, Nov 7
 a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. He first achieved li...
Fanny Crosby1820, Mar 241843
 
19151915, Feb 12
 an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. A member of the Sixth Avenue Bible Bapt...
Rebecca Hammond Lard1772, Mar 71786
 
1941855, Sep 28
 called by some critics "the first poet in Indiana". Her poetry reflects on the lives of the early...
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