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Literary Club (other)
Literary Club may refer to: * Literary Club of Cincinnati * ''Literary Club'' (magazine), a Bulgarian literary e-magazine *Literary Club, an alternate name for The Club (dining club) See also * Book club (other) {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Club Of Cincinnati
The Literary Club of Cincinnati is located at 500 East Fourth Street, across from Lytle Park in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. The club occupies a two-story Greek Revival house which was built in 1820, on the site of the home of William Sargent, secretary of the Northwest Territory. The Club was founded in 1849; its membership is limited to 100 men. The club was founded by woman's rights activist and abolitionist John Celivergos Zachos, Stanley Matthews (judge), Ainsworth Rand Spofford librarian of congress and 9 others. One year later President Rutherford B. Hayes became a member. Other prominent members included President William Howard Taft and notable club guests Ralph Waldo Emerson, Booker T. Washington, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde and Robert Frost. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Club (magazine)
''Literary Club'' ( bg, "Литературен клуб") is a Bulgarian literary e-magazine, established in 1998. The magazine publishes literature news and criticism. Throughout the years, the magazine has presented numerous competitions, such as: *2000 - Short story competition dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Bulgarian writer Yordan Yovkov Yordan Stefanov Yovkov ( bg, Йордан Стефанов Йовков) (November 9, 1880 – October 15, 1937) was a prominent Bulgarian writer from the interwar period. Biography Born in the village of Zheravna, Yovkov studied at First Sofia M ...'s birth. *2001 - Short story competition dedicated to the 121st anniversary of Yordan Yovkov's birth. *2004 - Literary criticism competition, dedicated to the 120th anniversary of Dimo Kyorchev's birth. *2007 - Short story competition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Yordan Yovkov's death. In 2009, the ''Literary Club'' won the national prize Hristo G. Danov for contributions to B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Club (dining Club)
The Club or Literary Club is a London dining club founded in February 1764 by the artist Joshua Reynolds and essayist Samuel Johnson, with Edmund Burke, the Anglo-Irish philosopher-politician. Description Initially, the Club would meet one evening per week at seven, at the Turk's Head Inn in Gerrard Street, Soho. Later, meetings were reduced to once per fortnight whilst Parliament was in session, and were held at rooms in St James's Street. Though the initial formation was proposed by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Dr. Samuel Johnson became the person most closely associated with the Club. John Timbs, in his ''Club Life in London'', gives an account of the Club's centennial dinner in 1864, which was celebrated at the Clarendon hotel. Henry Hart Milman, the English historian, was treasurer. The Club's toast, no doubt employing a bit of wishful thinking, was "''Esto perpetua''", Latin for "Let it be perpetual". This Latin phrase traces its origin to the last dying declaration of Paolo Sarp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
