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Mercian Novels
Francis Brett Young (29 June 1884 – 28 March 1954) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, composer, doctor and soldier. Life Francis Brett Young was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire. He received his early education at Iona, a private school in Sutton Coldfield. His father, Thomas Brett Young, was a doctor and his mother also came from a medical family, so it was natural that he go to the school for the sons of doctors, Epsom College. He was there when, at fourteen, he suffered the death of his beloved mother. He later went on to train at the University of Birmingham to become a qualified physician. He met his future wife, Jessie Hankinson, while he was lodging at Edgbaston in Birmingham and she was training at Anstey College of Physical Education, then housed in nearby The Leasowes (the former home of William Shenstone, the author he most admired). He started medical practice on the steamship SS ''Kintuck'', on a long voyage to the Far East. He returned with the mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Brett Young 1886
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Undergrowth (novel)
List of novels by Francis Brett Young Works ''Undergrowth'' (1913) ''Undergrowth'' is co-written with his brother Eric. It marked the debut for Francis who was later to emerge as one of the most popular British writers of the interwar years. The story is based on the construction of the Elan Valley Reservoirs, a subject that he later returned to more successfully in '' The House Under the Water'' in 1932. ''Undergrowth'' was published in 1913 by Martin Secker. A young English engineer travels to Wales to take over the construction of a dam, after the mysterious disappearance of his predecessor. ''Deep Sea'' (1914) ''Deep Sea'' is set in a West Country fishing town. ''The Iron Age'' (1916) ''The Iron Age'' was the first of Young's Mercian novels, focusing on a major industrial steelworks in the Stour Valley and the complex relationship between the firm's owners and their dynamic head engineer. ''The Crescent Moon'' (1918) ''The Crescent Moon'' was inspired by Brett Young's w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esthwaite Water
Esthwaite Water is one of the smaller and lesser known lakes in the Lake District National Park in northern England. It is situated between the much larger lakes of Windermere and Coniston Water, in the traditional county of Lancashire; since 1974 in the county of Cumbria. To the north is the village of Hawkshead and to the west is Grizedale Forest. The lake covers around and is known for its excellent fishing, particularly trout and pike. It has been designated as a site of special scientific interest. Etymology ''Esthwaite'' may mean either "the eastern clearing", with Middle English ''est'', probably replacing Old Norse ''austr'' 'east', and Norse ''þveit'' "clearing", or 'the clearing where ash trees grow', from Norse ''eski'' "ash trees, ash copse" (see ''askr'') and again ''þveit''. Derivation from Brittonic ''*ïstwïth'', "bent, curved, flexible, supple" has also been suggested (Welsh ''ystwyth'', see River Ystwyth). 'Water' is Old English ''wæter'', "water" the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawkshead
Hawkshead is a village and civil parish in Cumbria, England, which attracts tourists to the South Lakeland area. The parish includes the hamlets of Hawkshead Hill, to the north west, and Outgate, a similar distance north. Hawkshead contains one primary school but no secondary school and four public houses. Geography Hawkshead is just north of Esthwaite Water, in a valley to the west of Windermere and east of Coniston Water. It is part of Furness, making it a part of the ancient county of Lancashire. History The township of Hawkshead was originally owned by the monks of Furness Abbey; nearby Colthouse derives its name from the stables owned by the Abbey. Hawkshead grew to be an important wool market in medieval times and later as a market town after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1532. It was granted its first market charter by King James I in 1608. In 1585, Hawkshead Grammar School was established by Archbishop Edwin Sandys of York after he successfully petitioned Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esthwaite Lodge
Esthwaite Lodge is a 19th-century house in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England; it is a Grade II listed building. The house was commissioned by Thomas Alcock Beck, a local resident and antiquarian. He employed Kendal-based architect George Webster to design a property for him. Webster's design was a stuccoed villa of two storeys and three bays with a slate hipped roof. Completed in 1821 the house is in the Neoclassical Greek Revival style a Doric porch was added. Beck died in 1846 but his widow and his descendants continued to live in the house until the early 20th century. The 1911 census for England, however, records the property as being unoccupied. Ownership of the house passed to the Brocklebank family who leased the house to a number of tenants. One of these, between 1929 and 1932 was the novelist Francis Brett Young until he decided that the weather was too wet for him. With the outbreak of the Second World War the house was used for accommodating volunteers involved w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Walpole
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (13 March 18841 June 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold Bennett. His skill at scene-setting and vivid plots, as well as his high profile as a lecturer, brought him a large readership in the United Kingdom and North America. He was a best-selling author in the 1920s and 1930s but has been largely neglected since his death. After his debut novel, first novel, ''The Wooden Horse'', in 1909, Walpole wrote prolifically, producing at least one book every year. He was a spontaneous story-teller, writing quickly to get all his ideas on paper, seldom revising. His first novel to achieve major success was his third, ''Mr Perrin and Mr Traill'', a tragicomic story of a fatal clash between two schoolmasters. During the First World War he served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake District
The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region in North West England. A popular holiday destination, it is famous for its lakes, forests, and mountains (or ''fells''), and its associations with William Wordsworth and other Lake Poets and also with Beatrix Potter and John Ruskin. The Lake District National Park was established in 1951 and covers an area of . It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2017. The Lake District is today completely within Cumbria, a county and administrative unit created in 1974 by the Local Government Act 1972. However, it was historically divided between three English counties ( Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire), sometimes referred to as the Lakes Counties. The three counties met at the Three Shire Stone on Wrynose Pass in the southern fells west of Ambleside. All the land in England higher than above sea level lies within the National Park, including Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini. It also completely enclaves the country Lesotho. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World, and the second-most populous country located entirely south of the equator, after Tanzania. South Africa is a biodiversity hotspot, with unique biomes, plant and animal life. With over 60 million people, the country is the world's 24th-most populous nation and covers an area of . South Africa has three capital cities, with the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government based in Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town respectively. The largest city is Johannesburg. About 80% of the population are Black South Afri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capri
Capri ( , ; ; ) is an island located in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the Sorrento Peninsula, on the south side of the Gulf of Naples in the Campania region of Italy. The main town of Capri that is located on the island shares the name. It has been a resort since the time of the Roman Republic. Some of the main features of the island include the (the little harbour), the Belvedere of Tragara (a high panoramic promenade lined with villas), the limestone crags called sea stacks that project above the sea (the ), the town of Anacapri, the Blue Grotto (), the ruins of the Imperial Roman villas, and the vistas of various towns surrounding the Island of Capri including Positano, Amalfi, Ravello, Sorrento, Nerano, and Naples. Capri is part of the region of Campania, Metropolitan City of Naples. The town of Capri is a and the island's main population centre. The island has two harbours, and (the main port of the island). The separate of Anacapri is located high on the hills to the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Redlake
''Jim Redlake'' is a 1930 novel by the British writer Francis Brett Young Francis Brett Young (29 June 1884 – 28 March 1954) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, composer, doctor and soldier. Life Francis Brett Young was born in Halesowen, Worcestershire. He received his early education at Iona, a pri .... It portrays the life of the title character from childhood. Like most of his works, it was influenced by his own life experiences. Scenes set during the East African campaign had been censored from his earlier memoir of the campaign '' Marching on Tanga''. Young later declared it his favourite of his own novels.Gaudi p.333 References Bibliography * Robert Gaudi. ''African Kaiser: Paul Von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Great War in Africa, 1914-1918''. Oxford University Press, 2017. * Michael Hall. ''Francis Brett Young''. Seren, 1997. 1930 British novels Novels by Francis Brett Young Novels set in England Novels set in Africa Heinemann (publisher) books [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marching On Tanga
''Marching on Tanga'' is a 1917 non-fiction work by the British writer Francis Brett Young. A war memoir, it recounted his service in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the East African campaign of the First World War. Passages of the book were censored at the time, but later re-used in his novel '' Jim Redlake''. Several of Young's novels were set in German East Africa. The book sold well and was republished several times. It has been described as "an outstandingly vivid account of campaigns in East Africa", while acknowledging that the fighting there was a sideshow compared to the better-known European conflict.Stevenson p.226 References {{Reflist Bibliography * Michael Hall. ''Francis Brett Young''. Seren, 1997. * Randall Stevenson. ''Literature and the Great War 1914-1918''. 2 May 2013 External links''Marching on Tanga'' copies at Internet Archive The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
