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This week's featured author pages

Lucretius (95 - 52) -- Roman poet who attempted to popularise Epicurean philosophy

Mary Shelley (1797 - 1851) -- novelist of the Romantic period, best remembered for her novel Frankenstein

Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826) -- third president of the United States, and political philosopher who borrowed much from Locke and who argued that successful representative government was possible

Bayard Taylor (1828 - 1898) -- U.S. statesman and writer

Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943) -- famous writer and illustrator of children's books

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