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Rosamond
Rosamond is a feminine given name, which may refer to: People *Rosamond Carr (1912–2006), American humanitarian and author *Rosamund Clifford (before 1150 – c. 1176), English mistress of King Henry II * Rosamond Langbridge (1880–1964), Irish novelist, playwright and poet *Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990), British novelist *Rosamond Marshall (1902–1957), American novelist *Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949), British medieval historian *R. J. Mitchell (author) (born 1902), English author and archivist *Rosamond Pinchot (1904–1938), American socialite and actress *Rosamond Praeger (1867–1954), Irish artist, sculptor and writer *Rosamond Royal, pen name of Jeanne Hines (born 1922), American writer *Rosamond Smith, a pen name of Joyce Carol Oates (born 1938), American author *Rose Wilkinson (1885–1968), Canadian politician * Rosamond "Roz" Young (1912 - 2005), American author, educator and historian Fictional characters *the title character of ''The Complaint of Rosamond'', by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Nina Lehmann (3 February 1901 – 12 March 1990) was an English novelist and translator. Her first novel, ''Dusty Answer'' (1927), was a ''succès de scandale''; she subsequently became established in the literary world and intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set. Her novel ''The Ballad and the Source'' received particular critical acclaim. Early life Rosamond Lehmann was born in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, the second of four children to R. C. Lehmann, Rudolph Chambers Lehmann (1856–1929) and his American wife, Alice Mary Davis (1873–1956), from New England. Rosamond's father was a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Member of Parliament, MP from 1906-1910, founder of ''Granta'' magazine and editor of the ''Daily News (London), Daily News''. Because of this, Rosamond grew up in an affluent, well-educated, and well-known family; the American playwright Owen Davis was Rosamond's cousin, and her great-grandfather Robert Chambers (publisher born 1802), Robert Chamber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosamond Marshall
Rosamond Marshall (October 17, 1902 – November 13, 1957) was an American novelist.http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/ma3.htm, New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors, Retrieved August 27, 2010. She wrote historical romances for adult and youth readers during the 1940s and 1950s, and two of her novels, ''Kitty'' and ''The Bixby Girls'', were made into motion pictures. Early life Marshall was born Rosamond van der Zee Botsford on October 17, 1893, New York City, New York, the daughter of Charles and Florence (née Topping Botsford). Career Her first published novel in English, ''None But the Brave, A Story of Holland'' (1942), for young people, won the '' New York Herald Tribune'' Spring Book Award. Rosamond Marshall's novels for young people were overshadowed by the success of her historical romances for adults. The first of these, ''Kitty'', set the pattern for a continuing series of novels which had sales (in paperback reprints) ranging from a million and a h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) was an English poet, playwright and historian in the late- Elizabethan and early- Jacobean eras. He was an innovator in a wide range of literary genres. His best-known works are the sonnet cycle ''Delia'', the epic poem ''The Civil Wars Between the Houses of Lancaster and York'', the dialogue in verse '' Musophilus'', and the essay on English poetry ''A Defense of Rhyme''. He was considered one of the preeminent authors of his time and his works had a significant influence on contemporary writers, including William Shakespeare. Daniel's writings continued to influence authors for centuries after his death, especially the Romantic poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. C. S. Lewis called Daniel "the most interesting man of letters" whom the sixteenth century produced in England. Life and literary career Early life, education and relationship with John Florio Little is known about Samuel Daniel's early life. Biographer Thomas Fuller i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nate The Great
''Nate the Great'' is a series of 30 children's detective stories written by Marjorie Weinman Sharmat featuring the eponymous boy detective, Nate the Great. Sharmat and illustrator Marc Simont inaugurated the series in 1972 with ''Nate the Great'', a 60-page book published by Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. Simont illustrated the first twenty books, to 1998, and the last ten were illustrated by Martha Weston, Jody Wheeler, or Olga and Aleksey Ivanov "in the style of Marc Simont." Some of the titles were jointly written with Sharmat's sister Rosalind Weinman, husband Mitchell Sharmat or sons Craig Sharmat and Andrew Sharmat. Regarding the series Marjorie Sharmat calls husband Mitchell "always my first editor, and it's been a very happy collaboration". ''Nate the Great Goes Undercover'' was adapted as a television program and won the Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival Award. The New York Public Library named ''Nate the Great Saves the King of Sweden'' (1997, number 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
