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This week's featured author pages

John Webster (1578 - 1626) -- leading 17th century English tragedian

John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) -- great British philosopher, who embraced elements from both the enlightenment and from romanticism, and who wrote an enduring defence of political liberalism

John Donne (1572 - 1631) -- author of metaphysical and love poetry that is among the greatest ever written

Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821 - 1867) -- one of the greatest French poets of the 19th century

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874 - 1942) -- Canadian writer, famous for her Anne of Green Gables