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Evaleen Stein
Evaleen Stein (October 12, 1863 – December 11, 1923) was an American writer and poet as well as a limner. She was the author of eleven volumes of stories and three books of verse. In addition, she translated two volumes of poetry, one from the Japanese (''When Fairies Were Friendly'') and another from Italian. An ardent lover of nature, Stein reflected this tendency in most of her poems and stories. Among her children's literature works, all written between 1903 and 1925, are ''Troubadour Tales'', ''Gabriel and the Hour Book'', ''A Little Shepherd of Provence'', ''The Little Count of Normandy; Or, The Story of Raoul'', ''The Christmas Porringer'', ''Our little Norman cousin of long ago, being a story of Normandy in the time of William the Conqueror'', ''Our Little Frankish Cousin of Long Ago'', ''Child songs of cheer'', ''Our Little Celtic Cousin of Long Ago'', ''Pepin: A Tale of Twelfth Night'', and ''Little Poems from Japanese Anthologies''. She lived all her life with her moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman Of The Century
A, or a, is the first Letter (alphabet), letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is English alphabet#Letter names, ''a'' (pronounced ), plural English alphabet#Letter names, ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Greek alphabet#History, Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The Letter case, uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, "English articles, a", and its variant "English articles#Indefinite article, an", are Article (grammar)#Indefinite article, indefinite arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
