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The Besançon illuminator was a French miniaturist painter from Besançon who worked in that city in the 1440s-1470s, decorating mainly the Books of Hours.
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti, generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti inspired the next generation of artists and writers, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones in particular. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.
Sally Wood, full name Sarah Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, is an American author.
In her long life, Sally wrote four novels and one collection of fairy tales. She is considered the first American writer of gothic fiction. She signed her novels "The Lady from Massachusetts" or "The Lady from Maine". The first, entitled Julia and the Enlightened Baron, was published in 1800.