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Clara Reeve The Old English Baron

Short Story
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Clara Reeve (23 January 1729 – 3 December 1807) was an English novelist, best known for her Gothic novel The Old English Baron (1777).[1] Reeve was born in Ipswich, England, one of the eight children of Reverend Willian Reeve, M.A., Rector of Freston and of Kreson in Suffolk, and perpetual curate of St Nicholas. Her mother's maiden name was Smithies, daughter of a Smithies, a goldsmith and jeweller to King George I. In a letter to one of her friends Reeve said the following of her father and her early life: [more]

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Charlotte Mary Yonge Cameos From English History

From Rollo To Edward II

History
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Charlotte Mary Yonge (11 August 1823 – 24 May 1901) was an English novelist known for her huge [more]

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Professor Arber, Thomas Seccombe An English Garner

Critical Essays & Literary Fragments

Fiction
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Thomas Seccombe (1866—1923) was a miscellaneous English writer and, from 1891 to 1901, assistant editor of the Dictionary [more]

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JACQUES CASANOVA DE SEINGALT THE ENGLISH, CASANOVA, V23

Literary Collections
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Eccentricity of the English--Castelbajac Count Schwerin--Sophie at School--My Reception at the Betting Club--The Charpillon I passed a night which [more]

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GRAHAM JONES IRISH GHOST, ENGLISH ACCENT

Horror
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Graham Jones (born 1956) is an English lecturer and business owner. Graham Jones is an author speaker and writer. [more]

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Huber Gray Buehler Practical Exercises in English

Essay
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Huber Gray Buehler, Hotchkiss' second headmaster, 1904-1924. Hotchkiss faculty, (taught English)1892-1904, and assistant headmaster 1903-1904. Born Gettysburg, PA., [more]

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Various Rachel Thomas English Critical Essays

Nineteenth Century

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Various, or Various Production, is an English dubstep/electronic music duo formed in 2002. The group blends samples, acoustic and electronic instrumentation, and singing from a revolving cast of vocalists. Its members, Adam and Ian, purposefully give very little information about the group or themselves, and tend to do little in the way of self-promotion.Nevertheless, the group began winning critical acclaim with its single releases in 2005 and 2006, with singers Rachel Thomas Davies and Nicola Kearey. [more]

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Cyril James Humphries Davenport English Embroidered Bookbindings

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The application of needlework to the embellishment of the bindings of books has hitherto almost escaped special notice. In [more]

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Caroline F. E. Spurgeon Mysticism in English Literature

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The variety of applications of the term "mysticism" has forced me to restrict myself here to a discussion of [more]

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Caroline F. E. Spurgeon Mysticism in English Literature

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Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon (24 October 1869, India – 24 October 1942, Tucson, Arizona) was an English literary critic. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dresden and at King's College London and University College London.Caroline Spurgeon is known as the first female university professor in London, the second in England. She was actually the first female professor involved in English literature, and the first fully accepted in England at all. From May 1900 she lectured on English Literature in London. She became a member of the staff of Bedford College, London, in 1901.[1] She was an expert on Geoffrey Chaucer and in 1911 wrote a thesis in Paris on Chaucer devant la critique, and in 1929 in London on 500 years of Chaucer criticism and allusion. In 1936 she settled in Tucson, Arizona, where she died, apparently on her 73rd birthday from undisclosed causes. Spurgeon, Virginia Gildersleeve, Meta Tuke, Lilian Clapham and others enjoyed interweaving intimate relationships and shared their summers (see - Our Story) [more]

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