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Maxwell Gray
Mary Gleed Tuttiett (11 December 1846 – 21 September 1923), better known by the pen name Maxwell Gray, was an English novelist and poet best known for her 1886 novel ''The Silence of Dean Maitland''. Life Tuttiett was born and brought up in Newport, Isle of Wight, the daughter of the surgeon Frank Bampfylde Tuttiett and his wife Elizabeth née Gleed. Largely self-educated, in early adulthood she visited London, various other parts of England, and Yverdon-les-Bains in Switzerland;Maxwell Gray, Catherine Jane Hamilton, 1894, ''The Woman at Home'', Warwick Magazine Co but for the majority of her working life as a writer suffered constant debilitating illness from asthma and rheumatism—reports described her as "a confirmed invalid"—that left her unable to leave her bed for more than two to three hours a day. She wrote lying on a sofa.''Book News'', National Book League, 134, vol 12, October 1893 For much of her life she lived and worked confined to her home in Newport, first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Atalanta (magazine)
''Atalanta'' was a British monthly magazine for girls, which was published between 1887 and 1898. History Named after the Greek mythological heroine Atalanta, the magazine was founded by L. T. Meade as a successor to ''Every Girl's Magazine''. It appeared monthly from January 1887 at six pence per issue. A high literary standard was aimed at; original short stories and serials were published from authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, H. Rider Haggard, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Amy Levy, John Strange Winter, Grant Allen, Walter Besant, Maxwell Gray, and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. Additionally the magazine contained a ''Scholarship and Reading Union''. As part of this there were articles of criticism: Anne Thackeray on Jane Austen, Mary Ward on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Hughes on Charles Kingsley, Charlotte Mary Yonge on John Keble and Andrew Lang on Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ince (actor)
John Edward Ince (August 29, 1878 – April 10, 1947), also credited as John E. Ince, was an American stage and motion pictures actor, a film director, and the eldest brother of Thomas H. Ince and Ralph Ince. John Ince became a member of The Lambs Club in 1919 like his brother Ralph, who had joined in 1916. A leading man from the early 1910s, he also directed and scripted several of his own vehicles. Concentrating almost exclusively on directing from 1915 through 1928, Ince returned before the cameras as a character actor in the early years of the talkies. Selected filmography * ''The Battle of Shiloh'' (1913) - Frank Carey * ''The Cowardly Way'' (1915, director) * ''The Planter'' (1917, co-director) * '' Secret Strings'' (1918, director) * '' A Favor To A Friend'' (1919) * ''Blind Man's Eyes'' (1919, director) * ''Blackie's Redemption'' (1919, director) * ''One-Thing-at-a-Time O'Day'' (1919, director) * ''Old Lady 31'' (1920, director) * '' Held In Trust'' (1920, director) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Longford
Raymond Longford (born John Walter Hollis Longford, 23 September 18782 April 1959) was a prolific Australian film director, writer, producer and actor during the silent era. Longford was a major director of the silent film era of the Australian cinema. He formed a production team with Lottie Lyell. His contributions to Australian cinema with his ongoing collaborations with Lyell, including ''The Sentimental Bloke'' (1919) and '' The Blue Mountains Mystery'' (1921), prompted the Australian Film Institute's AFI Raymond Longford Award, inaugurated in 1968, to be named in his honour. Biography John Walter Hollis Longford was born in Hawthorn, a suburb of Melbourne, the son of John Walter Longford, a civil servant originally from Sydney, and his English wife, Charlotte Maria. His family soon started referring to him as "Ray". By 1880 they briefly moved to Paynesville, then went to Sydney when Longford's father became a warder at Darlinghurst Gaol. Longford became a sailor and spent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Times
''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper ''The Sunday Times'' (founded in 1821) are published by Times Newspapers, since 1981 a subsidiary of News UK, in turn wholly owned by News Corp. ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'', which do not share editorial staff, were founded independently and have only had common ownership since 1966. In general, the political position of ''The Times'' is considered to be centre-right. ''The Times'' is the first newspaper to have borne that name, lending it to numerous other papers around the world, such as ''The Times of India'', ''The New York Times'', and more recently, digital-first publications such as TheTimesBlog.com (Since 2017). In countries where these other titles are popular, the newspaper is often referred to as , or as , although the newspaper is of nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Alexander Hammerton
Sir John Alexander Hammerton (27 February 1871, in Alexandria, Scotland – 12 May 1949, in London) is described by the '' Dictionary of National Biography'' as "the most successful creator of large-scale works of reference that Britain has known". Collaboration with Arthur Mee Hammerton's first posts in journalism included a period in Nottingham, where he first met his lifelong collaborator and friend, Arthur Mee. In 1905, Hammerton joined Alfred Harmsworth's Amalgamated Press. He and Mee produced the ''Harmsworth Self-Educator''. Work on encyclopedias Hammerton contributed to the first edition of Mee's '' Children's Encyclopædia'', which was a fortnightly series from 1908 till 1910 before being published in eight large volumes. Hammerton's contribution consisted of compiling articles on 'Famous Books' and 'Poetry'. Hammerton's greatest achievement was '' Harmsworth's Universal Encyclopædia''. It was published first as a fortnightly series from 1920 to 1922. The Encyclopa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Mee
Arthur Henry Mee (21 July 187527 May 1943) was an English writer, journalist and educator. He is best known for ''The Harmsworth Self-Educator'', ''The Children's Encyclopædia'', ''The Children's Newspaper'', and ''The King's England''. The tone is looking back to the years immediately after the Great War, even during publication of volumes in the 1940s. Early life He was born on 21 July 1875 at Stapleford near Nottingham, England, the second of the ten children of Henry Mee (b. 1852), railway fireman, and his wife, Mary (née Fletcher). As a boy he earned money from reading the reports of Parliament to a local blind man. Career Mee left school at 14 to join a local newspaper, where he became an editor by age 20. He contributed many non-fiction articles to magazines and joined the staff of ''The Daily Mail'' in 1898. He was made literary editor five years later. In 1903 he began working for publisher Alfred Harmsworth's Amalgamated Press. He was appointed general edito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arreton
Arreton is a village and civil parish in the central eastern part of the Isle of Wight, England. It is about 3 miles south east of Newport. Name The settlement has had different names and different spellings over the years. For example, the village was called Adrintone in the 11th century, Arreton in the 12th century, Artone in the 13th century, Atherton and Adherton in the 14th century, Adderton in the 16th century, and Aireton in the 17th century. Description The village has two inns with a long history. The White Lion Inn has been in business for two centuries, and was a staging inn on the A3056 road between Newport and Sandown. At one time, there was a Red Lion Inn nearby. The Arreton Barns Craft Village commercial complex contains a pub called "The Dairyman's Daughter", named after a best selling book about a girl (Elizabeth Wallbridge) from Arreton by Rev. Legh Richmond. Arreton is home to the ''Shipwreck Centre and Maritime Museum'', which moved to the Arreton Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brading
The ancient 'Kynges Towne' of Brading is the main town of the civil parishes in England, civil parish of the same name. The ecclesiastical parish of Brading used to cover about a tenth of the Isle of Wight. The civil parish now includes the town itself and Adgestone, Morton, Isle of Wight, Morton, Nunwell and other outlying areas between Ryde, St Helens, Isle of Wight, St Helens, Bembridge, Sandown and Arreton. Alverstone was transferred to the Newchurch, Isle of Wight, Newchurch parish some thirty years ago. History Early history From early times, Brading ranked as an important Island port. The ancient name of Brerdynge, from which 'Brading' is derived, probably meant ''the people living by the ridge of the downland, Downs'', and dates from at least 683. The Roman Villa south of the town, and Roman relics discovered locally, indicate that this was an important seaport 2,000 years ago. Signs of prehistoric activity have also been found on Brading Down. History records that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swainston Manor
Swainston Manor is an English country house, lying to the east of Calbourne, Isle of Wight, England. It is now a hotel. History Swainston Manor was originally a manor house on a site dating back to 735 CE. Eight centuries ago, it became the location of a palace built by the Bishops of Winchester. It has a 12th-century chapel on its . Most of the present building was constructed in the 18th century, but an attached hall dates from the 13th century. Warwick the Kingmaker reportedly dined at Swainston Manor. It is a Grade II* listed building. Swainston is derived from its original name, "Sweyn's Town". It was founded by king Sweyn Forkbeard of Denmark, whose son was King Canute. The parish of Calbourne was at one time dependent on Swainston Manor. The poet Alfred Lord Tennyson also visited Swainston a few times. It is claimed that he wrote "Maud" on its grounds. He also wrote "In the Garden at Swainston" after the death of his friend and Swainston's owner, Sir John Simeon. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calbourne
Calbourne is a village in the civil parish of Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield, on the Isle of Wight, England. It is located 5 miles (8 km) from Newport in the west of the island. The village takes its name from the stream that passes through town, the Caul Bourne. The stream used to power five mills just north of the town. In the deed for the land produced in 826 CE, it is recorded as Cawelbourne. The village has a post office, a garage, a church and a public house, The Sun Inn. The garage is on the previous site of a blacksmith and wagonmaker. Calbourne is also the home of Westover cricket team, who play on the village green. History There is a privately held manor house, Westover House, on a hill overlooking Calbourne. The Westover Estate was established during the reign of Edward the Confessor. Westover House was once owned by Colonel Moulton-Barrett. Colonel Mouton-Barrett was a relative of the poet Elizabeth Barrett. Calbourne is also close to the site of Sw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freshwater, Isle Of Wight
Freshwater is a large village and civil parishes in England, civil parish at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. The southern, coastal part of the village is Freshwater Bay, named for the adjacent small cove. Freshwater sits at the western end of the region known as the Back of the Wight or the West Wight, a popular tourist area. Freshwater is close to steep Chalk Formation, chalk cliffs. It was the birthplace of physicist Robert Hooke and was the home of Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Landmarks Freshwater is famous for its geology and coastal rock formations that have resulted from centuries worth of coastal erosion. The "Arch Rock" was a well-known local landmark that collapsed on 25 October 1992. The neighbouring "Stag Rock" is so named because supposedly a stag leapt to the rock from the cliff to escape during a hunt. Another huge slab fell off the cliff face in 1968, and is now known as the "Mermaid Rock". I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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