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Also Known As Vibia Perpetua
Born c.182
Died March 7, 203 • Carthage
Notable Works “The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity”
Hippolyte Delehaye
Belgian scholar
Jules Goncourt
French author
Edmond Goncourt
French author
Konrad Kujau
German author
Diarist Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys
English diarist and naval administrator
James Boswell.
James Boswell
Scottish biographer
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Eugène Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People
Eugène Delacroix
French artist
St. Athanasius
St. Athanasius
Egyptian theologian
St. Gregory of Tours
Frankish scholar
George Fox
George Fox
English religious leader
Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American writer and aviator
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Anne Frank
Anne Frank
German diarist
Portrait of novelist Frances Burney
Frances Burney
British author
Adso of Montier-en-Der
Benedictine monk and abbot
Evelyn, oil painting by Robert Walker, 1648
John Evelyn
English author
Maria Dąbrowska
Polish author and critic
Fanny Kemble, detail from an engraving by A. Chappel after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1830.
Fanny Kemble
British actress
Murasaki Shikibu
Murasaki Shikibu
Japanese courtier and author

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