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Ravenshoe (novel)
''Ravenshoe'' is a novel by English author Henry Kingsley, published in 1862. It has been noted for the complexity of its three-part plot, and for its description of the Charge of the Light Brigade, a failed military action during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the de .... Overview The story centres round Charles, who was swapped at birth and is really William. When many years later he learns of this fact, he becomes a groom under an assumed name, and, when his identity leaks out, enlists in the Army and goes to the Crimea, where he is one of the six hundred of the Light Brigade which made the famous charge.Melville 1906, pp. 251–252. Plot The "House of Ravenshoe" in Stonington, Ireland, is the scene of this novel; and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Kingsley
Henry Kingsley (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley. He was an early exponent of muscular Christianity in an 1859 work, ''The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn''. Life Kingsley was born at Barnack Rectory, Northamptonshire, the son of the Rev. Charles Kingsley the elder and Mary, ''née'' Lucas. Charles Kingsley came of a long line of clergymen and soldiers. There were several writers in the family besides Henry and Charles, including Mary Kingsley, an explorer and writer, Charlotte Kingsley Chanter, a botanical writer and novelist, and George Kingsley, a traveller and writer. Henry Kingsley's boyhood was spent at Clovelly and Chelsea, before attending King's College School, King's College London, and Worcester College, Oxford, which he left without graduating. An opportune legacy from a relation enabled him to leave Oxford free of debt and emigrate to Australia. He arrived in Melbourne in the ''Gauntlet'' in De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charge Of The Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a failed military action involving the British light cavalry led by Lord Cardigan against Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 in the Crimean War. Lord Raglan had intended to send the Light Brigade to prevent the Russians from removing captured guns from overrun Turkish positions, a task for which the light cavalry were well-suited. However, there was miscommunication in the chain of command and the Light Brigade was instead sent on a frontal assault against a different artillery battery, one well-prepared with excellent fields of defensive fire. The Light Brigade reached the battery under withering direct fire and scattered some of the gunners, but they were forced to retreat immediately, and the assault ended with very high British casualties and no decisive gains. The events were the subject of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's narrative poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854), published just six weeks after the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of Balaclava
The Battle of Balaclava, fought on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War, was part of the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55), an Allied attempt to capture the port and fortress of Sevastopol, Russian Empire, Russia's principal naval base on the Black Sea. The engagement followed the earlier Allied victory in September at the Battle of Alma, Battle of the Alma, where the Russian General Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov, Menshikov had positioned his army in an attempt to stop the Allies progressing south towards their strategic goal. Alma was the first major encounter fought in the Crimean Peninsula since the Allied landings at Kalamita Bay on 14 September, and was a clear battlefield success; but a tardy pursuit by the Allies failed to gain a decisive victory, allowing the Russians to regroup, recover and prepare their defence. The Russians split their forces. Defending within the allied siege lines was primarily the Navy manning the considerable static defenses of the city and threa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimean War
The Crimean War, , was fought from October 1853 to February 1856 between Russia and an ultimately victorious alliance of the Ottoman Empire, France, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. Geopolitical causes of the war included the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the expansion of the Russian Empire in the preceding Russo-Turkish Wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in the Concert of Europe. The flashpoint was a disagreement over the rights of Christian minorities in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire, with the French promoting the rights of Roman Catholics, and Russia promoting those of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The churches worked out their differences with the Ottomans and came to an agreement, but both the French Emperor Napoleon III and the Russian Tsar Nicholas I refused to back down. Nicholas issued an ultimatum that demanded the Orthodox subjects of the Ottoman Empire be placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenshoe (new Edition, 1894) (cropped)
Ravenshoe ( ) is a rural town and locality in the Tablelands Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Ravenshoe had a population of 1,400 people. Geography Ravenshoe is on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. It is located south west of the regional centre, Cairns. At above sea level, Ravenshoe is the highest town in Queensland, with Queensland's highest pub "The Ravenshoe Hotel" (formerly the "Tully Falls Hotel" until 2014) and highest railway station. It also has the Millstream Falls, the widest waterfall in Australia. Traditionally the main industry in Ravenshoe was timber, but since 1987, when the government made of surrounding rainforest world heritage listed, the main industries have been tourism, beef and dairy farming. History The traditional owners of the land in the Ravenshoe district are the Jirrbal people who speak a dialect of the Dyirbal language. The site of the present day Ravenshoe was first settled by pastoralists prior to 1881 but when s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Rex Keller
Helen Rex Keller (August 13, 1876–January 21, 1967) was an American librarian and author of reference books. Her works included a two volume dictionary of dates.(November 20, 1934)Kirkus Reviews (Dictionary of Dates) ''Kirkus Reviews'' Keller edited and wrote the preface for the ''Library of the World's Best Literature'', a 30-volume reference work with synopses of works of literature. It was a continuation and expanded version of the Warner Library first published in 1897 with various editions up to 1917 edited by Charles Dudley Warner. She also authored a ''Dictionary of Dates'' divided into two volumes for the "old world" and "new world",(December 9, 1934)Dictionary of Dates (review) ''The New York Times'' and also authored the ''Readers's Digest of Books'' which provides summaries of about 1,500 books.Khan, Masood AliThe Principles and Practice of Library Science pp. 348–49 (1996) Keller taught classes in library economy at Columbia University and was the librarian for it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Melville
Lewis Saul Benjamin (pen name, Lewis Melville; 1874–1932) was an English author, born into a Jewish familyWilliam D. Rubinstein, Michael Jolles, Hilary L. Rubinstein, ''The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History'', Palgrave Macmillan (2011), p. 74 in London, England and educated privately in England and Germany. From 1896 to 1901 he was known as an actor, though part of his time even then was devoted to literature. His publications include: * ''In the World of Mimes: A Theatrical Novel'' (1902) * ''The Thackeray Country'' (1905) * ''Victorian Novelists'' (1906) * ''Bath under Beau Nash'' (1907) * ''The Beau of the Regency'' (1908) * '' William Makepeace Thackeray: A Biography'' (1909) * ''King Edward VII: His Life & Reign. The Record of a Noble Career'' (six volumes, 1910; with Edgar Sanderson) * ''The Life and Letters of Laurence Sterne'' (two volumes, 1911; American edition, 1912) * ''The Life and Letters of William Cobbett William Cobbett (9 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mademoiselle Mathilde
Mademoiselle (abbreviated as ''Mlle'' or ''M'') may refer to: * Mademoiselle (title), the French-language equivalent of the title "miss" Film and television * ''Mademoiselle'' (1966 film), a French-British drama directed by Tony Richardson * ''Mademoiselle'' (2001 film), a French comedy directed by Philippe Lioret * Mlle (TV channel), now MOI ET CIE, a Canadian French-language channel Music * "Mademoiselle" (song), by Styx, 1976 * "Mademoiselle", a song by Murray Head from '' Between Us'', 1979 * "Mademoiselle", a song by Eddy Howard, 1952 Other uses * Mademoiselle, a typeface designed by Tommy Thompson * ''Mademoiselle'' (magazine), a defunct American women's magazine See also * * *Damsel (other) *Demoiselle (other) *Fräulein ''Fräulein'' ( , ) is the German language honorific for unmarried women, comparable to Miss in English and Mademoiselle in French. Description ''Fräulein'' is the diminutive form of ''Frau'', which was previously reser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
