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This week's featured author pages

George Eliot (1819 - 1880) -- novelist whose works captured human behaviour and endeavour in the Victorian era.

Leucippus (400 - 400) -- less famous than his successor, Democritus, Leucippus is credited with being the co-founder of atomism

E.W. Hornung (1866 - 1921) -- well-known writer of mystery and detective stories

J.M. Synge (1871 - 1909) -- Irish poet and dramatist, who wrote about the bleak lives of many of the Irish people

Virgil (70 - 19) -- Roman poet that sang of the founding of Rome and who would go on to exert an incalculable influence on subsequent literature.