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The Slave (Hichens Novel)
''The Slave'' is an 1899 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens. Adaptation In 1918, it was adapted into a silent film of the same title directed by Arrigo Bocchi and starring Hayford Hobbs and Charles Vane.Goble p.222 References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. * Vinson, James. ''Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers''. Macmillan, 1982. 1899 British novels Novels by Robert Hichens British novels adapted into films {{1890s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hichens (writer)
Robert Hichens (Robert Smythe Hichens, 14 November 1864 – 20 July 1950) was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the " Naughty Nineties".John Sutherland. "HICHENS, Robert" in ''The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction''. 1989 Brian Stableford, "Hichens, Robert (Smythe)" in David Pringle, ed. ''St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic writers''. Detroit, MI: St. James Press, 1998, (pp. 268-70). Biography Hichens was born in Speldhurst in Kent, the eldest son of the Rev. Frederick Harrison Hichens, and his wife Abigail Elizabeth Smythe. He was educated at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music and early on had a desire to be a musician. Later in life he would become music critic on ''The World'', taking the place of George Bernard Shaw. He studied at the London School of Journalism. Hichens was a great traveller. Egypt was one of his favourit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. The total area of the United Kingdom is , with an estimated 2020 population of more than 67 million people. The United Kingdom has evolved from a series of annexations, unions and separations of constituent countries over several hundred years. The Treaty of Union between the Kingdom of England (which included Wales, annexed in 1542) and the Kingdom of Scotland in 170 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinemann (publisher)
William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann. Their first published book, 1890's ''The Bondman'', was a huge success in the United Kingdom and launched the company. He was joined in 1893 by Sydney Pawling. Heinemann died in 1920 and Pawling sold the company to Doubleday, having worked with them in the past to publish their works in the United States. Pawling died in 1922 and new management took over. Doubleday sold his interest in 1933. Through the 1920s, the company was well known for publishing works by famous authors that had previously been published as serials. Among these were works by H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, George Moore, Max Beerbohm, and Henry James, among others. This attracted new authors to publish their first editions with the company, including Graham Greene, Edward Upward, J.B. Priestley and Vita Sackville-West. Throughout, the company was also known for its classics an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Slave (1918 Film)
''The Slave'' is a 1918 British silent crime film directed by Arrigo Bocchi and starring Jean-Marie de l'Isle, Hayford Hobbs and Charles Vane. It was based on the 1899 novel of the same name by Robert Hichens.Goble p.956 Plot summary Cast * Jean-Marie de l'Isle as Lady Carroll Knox * Hayford Hobbs as Aubrey Herrick * Charles Vane as Sir Reuben Allabruth * Hettie Grossman as Diamond Manners * Ernest Wallace Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People * Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor * Ernest, ... * Paul Courtenay References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. External links * 1918 films British silent feature films British crime drama films 1910s English-language films Films directed by Arrigo Bocchi British black-and-white ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arrigo Bocchi
Arrigo Bocchi (c.1871 – ?) was a British-Italian film director and producer of the silent era.Low p.149-50 After the First World War Bocchi worked for Windsor Films at the Catford Studios in London as well as shooting films on location in Italy. Selected filmography Producer * ''Disraeli'' (1916) * '' The Black Night'' (1916) * '' A King of the People'' (1917) * '' Ora Pro Nobis'' (1917) Director * '' The Slave'' (1918) * '' Not Guilty'' (1919) * ''The Polar Star ''The Polar Star'' is a 1919 British silent mystery film directed by Arrigo Bocchi and starring Manora Thew, Hayford Hobbs and Peggy Patterson.Low p.429 The screenplay concerns a London soliciter who is killed in mysterious circumstances in It ...'' (1919) References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''The History of the British Film 1918–1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links * Year of death unknown 1870s births Italian film directors Italian film producers British film directors Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayford Hobbs
Hayford Hobbs (25 August 1890 - 10 January 1957) was a leading British film actor of the silent era and later became a film director. He was born in London, England, in 1891. He made his first screen appearance in the 1915 film ''The Third Generation'' and appeared in his last film '' High Treason'' in 1929. The following year he directed his first film, a documentary about London. Filmography * '' The Firm of Girdlestone'' (1915) * ''1914'' (1915) * '' The Sons of Satan'' (1915) * '' The Heart of a Child'' (1915) * ''The Third Generation'' (1915) * '' A Man of His Word'' (1915) * '' The Heart of Sister Ann'' (1915) * '' When Knights Were Bold'' (1916) * ''The Man in Motley'' (1916) * '' The Hypocrites'' (1916) * '' The Princess of Happy Chance'' (1916) * ''Trouble for Nothing'' (1916) * ''The King's Daughter'' (1916) * ''The Grit of a Jew'' (1917) * '' Asthore'' (1917) * ''Love's Old Sweet Song'' (1917) * '' Justice'' (1917) * '' The Gay Lord Quex'' (1917) * '' Dombey and Son'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vane (actor)
Charles Vane (born William George Yarrow; 2 January 1860 – 14 April 1943) was a British stage and film actor. Vane appeared in more than fifty films during the silent era including the lead in ''When It Was Dark'' (1919).Low p.477 Selected filmography * '' Kent, the Fighting Man'' (1916) * '' A Bunch of Violets'' (1916) * ''Sowing the Wind'' (1916) * '' The Grand Babylon Hotel'' (1916) * ''The House of Fortescue'' (1916) * '' Boys of the Old Brigade'' (1916) * '' The Top Dog'' (1918) * '' The Wages of Sin'' (1918) * '' The Man and the Moment'' (1918) * '' Peace, Perfect Peace'' (1918) * '' The Slave'' (1918) * '' Whosoever Shall Offend'' (1919) * '' The Irresistible Flapper'' (1919) * '' Not Guilty'' (1919) * ''When It Was Dark'' (1919) * ''The Polar Star'' (1919) * '' Fettered'' (1919) * ''Splendid Folly'' (1919) * '' The Lyons Mail'' (1919) * ''Castles in Spain'' (1920) * '' The Breed of the Treshams'' (1920) * ''The Channings'' (1920) * ''Calvary'' (1920) * '' The Way of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 British Novels
Events January 1899 * January 1 ** Spanish rule ends in Cuba, concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas. ** Queens and Staten Island become administratively part of New York City. * January 2 – **Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities. **The first part of the Jakarta Kota–Anyer Kidul railway on the island of Java is opened between Batavia Zuid ( Jakarta Kota) and Tangerang. * January 3 – Hungarian Prime Minister Dezső Bánffy fights an inconclusive duel with his bitter enemy in parliament, Horánszky Nándor. * January 4 – **U.S. President William McKinley's declaration of December 21, 1898, proclaiming a policy of benevolent assimilation of the Philippines as a United States territory, is announced in Manila by the U.S. commander, General Elwell Otis, and angers independence activists who had fought against Spa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Robert Hichens
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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