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Mary Cholmondeley
Mary Cholmondeley (usually pronounced /ˈtʃʌmli/, 8 June 1859 – 15 July 1925) was an English novelist. Her bestseller, '' Red Pottage'', satirised religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life. It was adapted as a silent film in 1918. Family Mary Cholmondeley was born at Hodnet near Market Drayton in Shropshire, the third of eight children of Rev Richard Hugh Cholmondeley (1827–1910) and his wife Emily Beaumont (1831–1893). Her great-uncle was a hymn-writing bishop, Reginald Heber, and her niece a writer, Stella Benson. An uncle, Reginald Cholmondeley of Condover Hall, was a host of the American novelist Mark Twain on his visits to England.Literary Heritage West Midlands: Mary CholmondeleyRetrieved 4 May 2012, citing Gordon Dickins: ''An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire'' (Shrewsbury: Shropshire Libraries, 1987). Her sister Hester, who died in 1892, wrote poetry and kept a journal: selections appear in Mary's family memoir, ''Under One Roof'' (1918).O ...
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Hodnet
Hodnet is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The town of Market Drayton lies 5.7 miles (9.2 km) north-east of the village. History Evidence of a Bronze Age burial site was discovered during construction of the bypass in 2002. The Anglo-Saxon settlement, which had a chapel, was the centre of Odenet, a royal manor belonging to Edward the Confessor and held by Roger de Montgomery who supported William the Conqueror after 1066. Hodnet was recorded in the ''Domesday Book'' as Odenet. Baldwin de Hodenet built a motte and bailey castle in about 1082 possibly on a moated mound from earlier times. The timber castle was rebuilt in sandstone around 1196 but was burned down in 1264. Hodnet Castle was mentioned in a document of 1223. Odo de Hodnet was granted the right to hold a weekly fair and an annual market by Henry III in the mid-13th century and the village grew to the north and east of the castle by the 12th-century church. In 1752 the estate passed from the ...
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Richard Bentley
Richard Bentley FRS (; 27 January 1662 – 14 July 1742) was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English school of Hellenism. In 1892, A. E. Housman called Bentley "the greatest scholar that England or perhaps that Europe ever bred". Bentley's ''Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris'', published in 1699, proved that the letters in question, supposedly written in the 6th century BCE by the Sicilian tyrant Phalaris, were actually a forgery produced by a Greek sophist in the 2nd century CE. Bentley's investigation of the subject is still regarded as a landmark of textual criticism. He also showed that the sound represented in transcriptions of some Greek dialects by the letter digamma appeared also in Homeric poetry, even though it was not represented there in writing by any letter. Bentley became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1700. His auto ...
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19th-century British Novelists
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the la ...
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Victorian Women Writers
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Victorian Novelists
Victorian or Victorians may refer to: 19th century * Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign ** Victorian architecture ** Victorian house ** Victorian decorative arts ** Victorian fashion ** Victorian literature ** Victorian morality ** Victoriana Other * ''The Victorians'', a 2009 British documentary * Victorian, a resident of the state of Victoria, Australia * Victorian, a resident of the provincial capital city of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada * RMS ''Victorian'', a ship * Saint Victorian (other), various saints * Victorian (horse) * Victorian Football Club (other), either of two defunct Australian rules football clubs See also * Neo-Victorian, a late 20th century aesthetic movement * Queen Victoria * Victoria (other) Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria ...
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English Women Novelists
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People From Market Drayton
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1925 Deaths
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1859 Births
Events January–March * January 21 – José Mariano Salas (1797–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. * January 24 ( O. S.) – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza (Romania since 1866, final unification takes place on December 1, 1918; Transylvania and other regions are still missing at that time). * January 28 – The city of Olympia is incorporated in the Washington Territory of the United States of America. * February 2 – Miguel Miramón (1832–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. * February 4 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the ''Codex Sinaiticus'', a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Khedivate of Egypt. * February 14 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. * February 12 – The Mekteb-i Mülkiye School is founded in the Ottoman Empire. * February 17 – French naval forces under Char ...
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Percy Lubbock
Percy Lubbock, CBE (4 June 1879 – 1 August 1965) was an English man of letters, known as an essayist, critic and biographer. His controversial book ''The Craft of Fiction'' gained influence in the 1920s. Life Percy Lubbock was the son of the merchant banker Frederic Lubbock (1844–1927) and his wife Catherine (1848–1934), daughter of John Gurney (1809–1856) of Earlham Hall, Norfolk, who was a member of an influential Norwich banking family. ''Earlham'', Percy Lubbock's memoir of childhood summer holidays spent at his maternal grandfather's house, was to win him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1922. His father, Frederic Lubbock, was also a banker, a son of Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet, and a younger brother of John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, brought up at Emmetts near Ide Hill in Kent. He was educated at Eton College and King's College, Cambridge. He later became a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Pepys Librarian. Lubbock set up home at Gli S ...
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Valancourt Books
Valancourt Books is an independent American publishing house founded by James Jenkins and Ryan Cagle in 2005. The company specializes in "the rediscovery of rare, neglected, and out-of-print fiction," in particular gay titles and Gothic and horror novels from the 18th century to the 1980s. Overview Discovering that many works of Gothic fiction from the late 18th and early 19th centuries were unavailable in print, Jenkins and Cagle founded Valancourt in 2005 and began reprinting some of them. Their list includes the " Northanger 'horrid' novels", seven gothic novels lampooned by Jane Austen in ''Northanger Abbey'' (1818) and once thought to be fictional titles of Austen's creation. Eventually the company "expanded into neglected Victorian-era popular fiction, including old penny dreadfuls and sensation novels, as well as a lot of the decadent and ''fin de siècle'' literature of the 1890s." In 2012, Jenkins and Cagle realized that there was 20th century literature as recent as t ...
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Red Pottage (film)
''Red Pottage'' is a 1918 British silent drama film directed by Meyrick Milton and starring C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Dibley and Gerald Ames. It is an adaptation of the 1899 novel '' Red Pottage'' by Mary Cholmondeley. Cast * C. Aubrey Smith - Lord Newhaven * Mary Dibley - Lady Newhaven * Gerald Ames - Hugh Scarlett * E. Holman Clark - Bishop * Marjorie Hume Marjorie Hume (27 January 1893 – 13 March 1976) was an English film actress. She appeared in 36 films between 1917 and 1955. Selected filmography * '' Doing His Bit'' (1917) * '' Red Pottage'' (1918) * '' The Swindler'' (1918) * '' Lady ... - Rachel West References External links * 1918 films British drama films British silent feature films Films directed by Meyrick Milton 1918 drama films Films based on British novels Ideal Film Company films British black-and-white films 1910s English-language films 1910s British films Silent drama films {{1910s-drama-film-stub ...
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