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Margaret Peterson
Margaret Peterson (1883 – 1933) was an English people, English novelist. Biography Margaret Peterson grew up in Mumbai, Bombay (Mumbai), the youngest child of Peter and Agnes (née Christall) Peterson. Her parents were originally from Scotland but relocated in 1873 to Bombay, where her father, a Vyākaraṇa, Sanskritist, took a professorship at Elphinstone College. In 1910 Margaret Peterson relocated to London, where she lived on 25 shillings a week in a girls’ hostel. She initially supported herself with odd jobs—dog-walker, waitress, nanny—before deciding to become a writer. She went door-to-door with her autobiographical first manuscript, ''Youth at the Helm'', pitching it to different publishers with little success. She then met the publisher Andrew Melrose, who decline her manuscript but encouraged her to keep writing. Her next work, ''Lure of the Little Drum'', he accepted for publication and awarded her the firm’s writing prize, a 250-guinea cash award for best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
