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Beside The Bonnie Brier Bush
''Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush'' is a book of short stories by Ian Maclaren published in 1894. It became a hugely popular bestseller. It is considered to be part of the Kailyard School of Scottish literature. A kailyard or kailyaird ( kale) is comparable to a cabbage patch and refers to a kitchen garden as might be found adjacent to a cottage. The title, ''Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush'', references the Jacobite song " There grows a bonnie brier bush in our Kailyard". ''Publishers Weekly'' reported it as the bestselling novel in the U.S. during 1895 and the 10th bestselling novel during 1896. The stories in the book recount some of MacLaren's experiences as a Free Church minister in rural Perthshire and blends humour and pathos with racy Scots dialogue. Maclaren mentions the Drumtochty Forest in the book. William Hole illustrated an 1896 Hodder & Stoughton edition of the book. In the U.S., Clifton Johnson illustrated an edition of the book as well as MacLaren's ''The Days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Days Of Auld Lang Syne
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1894 Short Story Collections
Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * January 9 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard, in Lexington, Massachusetts. * February 12 ** French anarchist Émile Henry sets off a bomb in a Paris café, killing one person and wounding twenty. ** The barque ''Elisabeth Rickmers'' of Bremerhaven is wrecked at Haurvig, Denmark, but all crew and passengers are saved. * February 15 ** In Korea, peasant unrest erupts in the Donghak Peasant Revolution, a massive revolt of followers of the Donghak movement. Both China and Japan send military forces, claiming to come to the ruling Joseon dynasty government's aid. ** At 04:51 GMT, French anarchist Martial Bourdin dies of an accidental detonation of his own bomb, next ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publishers Weekly List Of Bestselling Novels In The United States In The 1890s
This is a list of bestselling novels in the United States from 1895 through 1899, as determined by '' The Bookman'', a New York–based literary journal. Without the international copyright law which came into force in 1891, these volumes could have been printed and published by anyone, the change in this state of affairs made it possible to compile accurate sales figures.''70 Years of Best Sellers: 1895–1965'', A. P. Hackett. Page 91. Notable attempts to compile a list of best-selling books in the United States prior to 1895 include ''The Popular Book: A History of America's Literary Taste'' (1950) by James D. Hart. 1895 # ''Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush'' by Ian Maclaren # ''Trilby'' by George du Maurier # ''The Adventures of Captain Horn'' by Frank R. Stockton # ''The Manxman'' by Hall Caine # '' The Princess Aline'' by Richard Harding Davis # ''The Days of Auld Lang Syne'' by Ian Maclaren # '' The Master'' by Israel Zangwill'' # ''The Prisoner of Zenda'' by Anthony Hope # '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Film
A lost film is a feature or short film that no longer exists in any studio archive, private collection, public archive or the U.S. Library of Congress. Conditions During most of the 20th century, U.S. copyright law required at least one copy of every American film to be deposited at the Library of Congress at the time of copyright registration, but the Librarian of Congress was not required to retain those copies: "Under the provisions of the act of March 4, 1909, authority is granted for the return to the claimant of copyright of such copyright deposits as are not required by the Library." A report created by Library of Congress film historian and archivist David Pierce claims: * 75% of original silent-era films have perished. * 14% of the 10,919 silent films released by major studios exist in their original 35 mm or other formats. * 11% survive only in full-length foreign versions or film formats of lesser image quality. Of the American sound films made from 1927 to 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bonnie Brier Bush
''The Bonnie Brier Bush'' is a 1921 British drama film directed by Donald Crisp. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is considered to be lost. Plot As described in a film magazine, dour Scottish shepherd Lachlan Campbell (Crisp) is exceedingly harsh with his daughter Flora (Glynne). Flora and Lord Malcolm Hay (Fraser), the son of the Earl of Kinspindle (Robertshaw), marry secretly according to Scottish custom, and parental objection leads to misunderstandings followed by separation and misery. A logical resolution leads to a satisfactory ending. Cast * Donald Crisp as Lachlan Campbell * Mary Glynne as Flora Campbell * Alec Fraser as Lord Malcolm Hay * Dorothy Fane as Kate Carnegie * Jack East as Posty * Langhorn Burton as John Carmichael (credited as Langhorne Burton) * Jerrold Robertshaw as Earl of Kinspindle * Adeline Hayden Coffin as Margaret Howe (credited as Mrs. Hayden-Coffin) See also * Alfred Hitchcock filmography Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Crisp
Donald William Crisp (27 July 188225 May 1974) was an English film actor as well as an early producer, director and screenwriter. His career lasted from the early silent film era into the 1960s. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1942 for his performance in ''How Green Was My Valley''. Early life Donald Crisp was born George William Crisp in Bow, London, in a family home on 27 July 1882. He was the youngest of ten children (four boys and six girls) born to Elizabeth (née Christy) and James Crisp, a labourer. He was educated locally and in 1901 was living with his parents and working as a driver of a horse-drawn vehicle. Crisp made a number of claims about his early life that were eventually proven false decades after his death. He claimed that he was born in 1880 in Aberfeldy in Perthshire, Scotland, and even went so far as to maintain a Scottish accent throughout his life in Hollywood. In fact, he had no connections to Scotland, but in 1996, a plaque comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bonnie Brier Bush (1921) - 2
''The Bonnie Brier Bush'' is a 1921 British drama film directed by Donald Crisp. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is considered to be lost. Plot As described in a film magazine, dour Scottish shepherd Lachlan Campbell (Crisp) is exceedingly harsh with his daughter Flora (Glynne). Flora and Lord Malcolm Hay (Fraser), the son of the Earl of Kinspindle (Robertshaw), marry secretly according to Scottish custom, and parental objection leads to misunderstandings followed by separation and misery. A logical resolution leads to a satisfactory ending. Cast * Donald Crisp as Lachlan Campbell * Mary Glynne as Flora Campbell * Alec Fraser as Lord Malcolm Hay * Dorothy Fane as Kate Carnegie * Jack East as Posty * Langhorn Burton as John Carmichael (credited as Langhorne Burton) * Jerrold Robertshaw as Earl of Kinspindle * Adeline Hayden Coffin as Margaret Howe (credited as Mrs. Hayden-Coffin) See also * Alfred Hitchcock filmography Alfred Hitchcock (1899†... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lettice Fairfax
Lettice Fairfax (March 26, 1876 – December 25, 1948) was an English stage and silent film actress. She is known for her roles in the Edwardian musical comedy ''An Artist's Model'' (1895) and in silent cinema such as '' Brother Officers'' as Baroness Honour Royden (1915). Plays *''Auld lang sine'' (1892) *''Don Juan'' (1893) *''An Artist's Model'' (1895) *''Josiah's Dream; or, The Woman of the Future'' (1895) *''The First Violin'' as May Wedderhorn (1898) *''Captain Swift'' (1899 and 1906) *''The First Night'' (1899) *''Facing the music'' (1900) *''Rip Van Winkle'' (1900) *''The Price of Peace'' (1900) *''The Queen's Double'' (1901) *''Beau Austin'' (1901) *''Beaucaire'' (1901-1902) *''Sporting Simpson'' (1902) *''Milky White'' (1902) *''Lyre and Lancet'' (1902) *''Brown at Brighton'' (1902) *''Mrs. Gorringe's Necklace'' (1903-1904) *''My Lady of Roselade'' (1904) *''The Money Makers'' (1904) *''A Wife without a Smile'' (1904) *''Mollentrave on Women'' (1905) *''Alice Sit-by- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mabel Brownell
Mabel Brownell (December 19, 1883 — January 23, 1972) was an American stage actress and director, active on Broadway in the 1920s. Early life Mabel Brownell was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1883 (one source gives 1888). She graduated from Hughes High School in 1902. She also studied music and elocution. Career Mabel Brownell made her debut in 1903, when she also made her first visit to the American West, in ''Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush'' by Ian Maclaren. Brownell appeared in a lead role in a revival of ''Ben-Hur'' on Broadway in 1907. She was also lead actress of the Mabel Brownell-Clifford Stork Company, a theatre company based in Newark, New Jersey. In 1909 she starred in William Vaughn Moody's '' The Great Divide'' in London. She acted into the 1920s, often outside of New York City. She was known to do extensive research into her roles. In 1917 she spent six weeks living in a boarding house in McKeesport, Pennsylvania to play a laborer's wife in a steel town in Eugene Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirke La Shelle
Kirke La Shelle (September 23, 1862 – May 16, 1905) was an American journalist, playwright and theatrical producer. He was known for his association with such successful productions as ''The Wizard of the Nile'', ''The Princess Chic'', ''Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush'', ''Arizona'', ''The Earl of Pawtucket'', '' The Virginian'', ''The Education of Mr. Pipp'' and ''The Heir to the Hoorah''. La Shelle's career as a playwright and producer was relatively brief due to an illness that led to his demise at the age of forty-two. Early life Milton Kirk LaShells was born at Wyoming, Illinois the son of Sarah Williams and James Ralph LaShells.''The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography,'' Vol. XII, 1904, p. 185 Retrieved June 11, 2014James LaShells, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles H
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' ÄŠearl'' or ''ÄŠeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''Ä‹eorl''), which developed its de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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