Ghent (surname)
Ghent is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Emma Ghent Curtis (1860–1918), American novelist, poet, newspaper publisher, Populist, and suffragist *Emmanuel Ghent (1925–2003), Canadian composer and psychoanalyst * Matthew Ghent (born 1980), English footballer *Ronnie Ghent (born 1980), American football player and coach *W. J. Ghent William James Ghent (1866–1942) was an American socialist journalist and writer. His main focus was on socialism and on the history of the Westward Expansion of the early United States. Biography Early years William James Ghent was born on Apri ...

Emma Ghent Curtis
Emma Ghent Curtis (May 18, 1860 – February 9, 1918) was an American novelist, poet, newspaper publisher, Populist, and suffragist. Curtis published two Western novels in the late 1880s. The second of these, ''The Administratrix'', is the first cowboy novel outside of the dime novel tradition, preceding Owen Wister's '' The Virginian'' by more than a decade. Curtis was instrumental in making women's suffrage part of the Populist platform. Early life and background Emma Ghent was born to Ira Keith Ghent and Mary Palmer Ghent in 1860, in Frankfort, Indiana. Her father was a farmer. She graduated from Frankfort High School in 1877. Emma Ghent married James Curtis, a rancher, on January 2, 1882, in Cañon City, Colorado. The couple had two children. Career Writing Curtis published her first novel, ''The Fate of a Fool'', in 1888. Set in Colorado, the novel explores the negative effects of sex work on both men and women. Gessia, a music teacher, marries a handsome and well-o ...
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Populist Movement (United States, 19th Century)
The People's Party, also known as the Populist Party or simply the Populists, was a left-wing agrarian populist political party in the United States in the late 19th century. The Populist Party emerged in the early 1890s as an important force in the Southern and Western United States, but collapsed after it nominated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 United States presidential election. A rump faction of the party continued to operate into the first decade of the 20th century, but never matched the popularity of the party in the early 1890s. The Populist Party's roots lay in the Farmers' Alliance, an agrarian movement that promoted economic action during the Gilded Age, as well as the Greenback Party, an earlier third party that had advocated fiat money. The success of Farmers' Alliance candidates in the 1890 elections, along with the conservatism of both major parties, encouraged Farmers' Alliance leaders to establish a full-fledged third party before the 1892 elect ...
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Emmanuel Ghent
Emmanuel Robert Ghent (May 15, 1925 in Montréal, Quebec – March 31, 2003 in New York City, USA) was a pioneering composer of electronic music and a psychiatric practitioner, researcher, and teacher. Biography Emmanuel Ghent was born in Montreal, Quebec. He grew up in Montreal and attended McGill University to study medicine. After graduating, he moved to New York City to continue his psychiatric training. He remained there all his life, practicing in New York and eventually becoming a clinical professor of psychology at the postdoctoral program in psychoanalysis at New York University. Throughout his life, Ghent worked to expand his field of psychoanalysis beyond psychiatric practitioners. Emmanuel Ghent died in New York City. Work Psychology Emmanuel Ghent was a key figure of the relational psychoanalysis movement, belonging to its first generation alongside Adrienne Harris, Stephen Mitchell, Muriel Dimen, and Ruth Stein. His most famous contribution to that traditio ...
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Matthew Ghent
Matthew Ghent (born 5 September 1980) is an English retired professional football goalkeeper. He also played for England Under-16 and Under-18 teams. Career Ghent started his football career with Aston Villa as an associated schoolboy player and as a schoolboy represented England 27 times at the age of 14-18 playing against the likes of Germany, Sweden and Brasil and was part of the prestigious National School of excellence playing with the likes of Michael Owen, Wes Brown and Scott Parker following this Ghent progressed to a traineeship at Aston Villa despite interest from Newcastle United before turning professional in 1997 at the age of 17. He appeared as an unused substitute for Aston Villa against Southampton in the premier league 16 days after his 17th Birthday at the time making him the youngest ever Goalkeeper to appear on a Premier League teamsheet. From there he made further squad appearances against Arsenal and Manchester United that season. Having been a regular reser ...
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Ronnie Ghent
Ronnie Jerome Ghent (born January 5, 1980) is a former American football fullback and former head coach of the Central Florida Jaguars of American Indoor Football (AIF). He was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as an undrafted free agent in 2004. He played college football at Louisville. Ghent has also been a member of the Cincinnati Bengals, New Orleans Saints, New York Sentinels and Hartford Colonials. Early years Ghent attended Lakeland Senior High School in Lakeland, Florida and was a letterman in football, basketball, and track. In football, he was a three-year letterman and as a senior, he was named as a first-team All-Polk County selection by the Tampa Tribune. Ghent graduated in 1999. Coaching career On November 24, 2015, it was announced that Ghent would return to his hometown of Lakeland to serve as the inaugural head coach for the Central Florida Jaguars of American Indoor Football American Indoor Football (AIF) was a professional indoor football league, one of ...
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