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Tilling (Sussex)
Tilling is a fictional coastal town, based on Rye, East Sussex, in the ''Mapp and Lucia'' novels of Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940). Town in the novels of E F Benson Tilling takes its name from the River Tillingham which flows through Rye. Benson himself moved to Rye in 1918, where he lived in Lamb House, former home of the novelist Henry James. Benson was mayor of Rye 1934-7 and was elected Speaker of the Cinque Ports in 1936. Mapp and Lucia Tilling first appeared in '' Miss Mapp'' (1922) and subsequently in ''The Male Impersonator'' and ''Desirable Residences'' (short stories of 1929), ''Mapp and Lucia'' (1931), in which Emmeline Lucas ("Lucia") and Elizabeth Mapp clashed for the first time, ''Lucia's Progress'' (1935) and ''Trouble for Lucia'' (1939). The novelist Susan Leg, the subject of ''Secret Lives'' (1932), re-appeared in ''Trouble for Lucia''. The first Lucia book, ''Queen Lucia'', was published in 1920. It was followed in 1927 by ''Lucia in London''. Benson' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rye Street
Rye (''Secale cereale'') is a Poaceae, grass grown extensively as a grain, a cover crop and a forage crop. It is a member of the wheat Tribe (biology), tribe (Triticeae) and is closely related to both wheat (''Triticum'') and barley (genus ''Hordeum''). Rye grain is used for flour, rye bread, bread, rye beer, beer, crispbread, some rye whiskey, whiskeys, some vodkas, and animal fodder. It can also be eaten whole, either as boiled rye berries or by being rolled, similar to rolled oats. Rye is a cereal grain and should not be confused with Lolium, ryegrass, which is used for lawns, pasture, and as hay for livestock. Distribution and habitat Rye is one of a number of species that grow wild in the Levant, central and eastern Turkey and in adjacent areas. Evidence uncovered at the Epipalaeolithic site of Tell Abu Hureyra in the Euphrates valley of northern Syria suggests that rye was among the first cereal crops to be systematically cultivated, around 13,000 years ago. However ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Savory
Gerald Douglas Savory (17 November 1909 – 9 February 1996) was an English writer and television producer specialising in comedies. Biography The son of Kenneth Douglas Savory and actress Grace Lane (1877–1956), he was educated at Bradfield College and worked as a stockbroker's clerk before turning to the stage ( Hull Repertory Theatre Company 1931–33), first as an actor then a writer. His play ''George and Margaret'', written while out of work as an actor, ran for two years at Wyndham's Theatre and a year at the Piccadilly. It then transferred to Broadway, where it ran for 86 performances, and was later filmed. His earliest work in the film industry was as a dialogue writer for director Alfred Hitchcock's ''Young and Innocent'' (1937). He lived in the USA in the 1940s and 50s writing for film and television, and became an American citizen. After returning to England in the mid 1950s he became a writer, producer and production manager for Granada Television, producing five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Make Way For Lucia
''Make Way for Lucia'' is a 1948 comedy play by the British writer John Van Druten. It is based on the 1931 novel ''Mapp and Lucia'' by E. F. Benson. In a small town in pre-First World War England, a pretentious new arrival, Lucia, crosses sword with the local queen bee Miss Mapp. The play ran for 29 performances at the Cort Theatre on Broadway from 22 December 1948 to 15 January 1949. The cast included Isabel Jeans, Catherine Willard as the two leads, with Cyril Ritchard, Ivan Simpson, Viola Roache and Philip Tonge. The production featured sets and costumes by Lucinda Ballard Lucinda Ballard (April 3, 1906 – August 19, 1993) was an American costume designer who worked primarily in Broadway theatre. Born Lucinda Davis Goldsborough in New Orleans, Louisiana, Ballard studied at the Art Students League in New York City. .... References 1948 plays Plays by John Van Druten Plays set in the 1910s Plays set in England Plays based on novels {{1940s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Van Druten
John William Van Druten (1 June 190119 December 1957) was an English playwright and theatre director. He began his career in London, and later moved to America, becoming a U.S. citizen. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society. Biography Van Druten was born in London in 1901, son of a Dutch father named Wilhelmus van Druten and his English wife Eva. He was educated at University College School and read law at the University of London. Before commencing his career as a writer, he practised law for a while as a solicitor and university lecturer in Wales. He first came to prominence with ''Young Woodley (play), Young Woodley'', a slight but charming study of adolescence, produced in New York in 1925. However, it was banned in London by the Lord Chamberlain's office owing to its then controversial portrayal of a schoolboy falling in love with his headmaster's wife. In Britain, it was first produced privately (by Phyllis Whitworth' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward VIII
Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India from 20 January 1936 until Abdication of Edward VIII, his abdication in December of the same year. Edward was born during the reign of his great-grandmother Queen Victoria as the eldest child of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George V and Mary of Teck, Queen Mary. He was created Prince of Wales on his 16th birthday, seven weeks after his father succeeded as king. As a young man, Edward served in the British Army during the First World War and undertook several overseas tours on behalf of his father. While Prince of Wales, he engaged in a series of sexual affairs that worried both his father and then-British prime minister Stanley Baldwin. Upon Death and state funeral of George V, his father's death in 1936, Edward became the second monarch of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rye Railway Station (East Sussex)
Rye railway station is a Grade II listed station, serving Rye, East Sussex, England. It is on the Marshlink line between and and is the principal station between those two terminals. The station is a passing place between two single track sections. Services are provided by Southern, usually between and Ashford with an additional shuttle from Rye to Ashford at peak times. A station at Rye was first planned in the early 1840s, though on a different route to what was opened. It was built by the South Eastern Railway as the central station on the line from Hastings to Ashford, opening in 1851. Despite recommendation for closure in the 1963 Beeching Report, it has remained open because of poor quality road connections. The station building was designed by William Tress; it was Grade II listed in 1980, while an 1894 signal box was listed in 2013. Location The station is to the north of the town centre, between two level crossings. There are two platforms, one for trains to Ashf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lobster A La Riseholme
''Mapp and Lucia'' is a collective name for a series of novels by E. F. Benson and also the name of two British television adaptations based on those novels. The first novel, ''Queen Lucia'', was published in 1920, and introduced Mrs. Emmeline "Lucia" Lucas, the social leader in the fictional town of Riseholme, her husband Robert "Pepino" Lucas, best friend Georgie Pillson, and rival Daisy Quantock. The second novel, '' Miss Mapp'', was published in 1922, and introduced Miss Elizabeth Mapp, the ferocious queen of another fictional seaside town, Tilling. The third, ''Lucia in London'' (1927), brought Lucia and Pepino from Riseholme to London, while her Riseholme neighbours seethed. With the fourth novel, ''Mapp and Lucia'' (1931), Benson brought the characters from the previous three books together, with a freshly-widowed Lucia moving to Tilling with Georgie, and battling Mapp for control of the town's social life. This storyline continued in '' Lucia's Progress'' (1935) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Partridge
Eric Honeywood Partridge (6 February 1894 – 1 June 1979) was a New Zealand–British lexicographer of the English language, particularly of its slang. His writing career was interrupted only by his service in the Army Education Corps and the RAF correspondence department during World War II. Early life Partridge was born in the Waimata Valley, near Gisborne, on the North Island of New Zealand to John Thomas Partridge, a grazier, and his wife Ethel Annabella Norris. In 1908 the family moved to Queensland, Australia, where he was educated at the Toowoomba Grammar School. He studied classics and then French and English at the University of Queensland. During this time Partridge also worked for three years as a schoolteacher before enrolling in the Australian Imperial Force in April 1915 and serving in the Australian infantry during the First World War, in Egypt, Gallipoli and on the Western Front, before being wounded in the Battle of Pozières. His interest in slang an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camber, East Sussex
Camber is a village and civil parish in the Rother district of East Sussex, England, south-east of Rye. The village is located behind the sand dunes that occupy the estuary of the River Rother, where the seaside settlement of Camber Sands is situated. The village of Camber takes its name from the Camber (la Chambre) the huge embayment of the English Channel located between Rye, old Winchelsea and Old Romney that was gradually lost to "innings" and silting-up following changes to the coastline and the changed course of the Eastern Rother since the Middle Ages. History Camber came into its own with the game of golf: it was originally a collection of fishermen's dwellings. By the early 1890s, the number of visitors to Rye increased as tourism became more prevalent. One result of this was the building, in 1894, of ''Rye Golf Links'' in the area of sand dunes which occupy the shores of Rye Bay. The ''Royal William Hotel'' opened that year, and gradually the new village expanded. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Rother, East Sussex
The River Rother flows for through the English counties of East Sussex and Kent. Its source is near Rotherfield in East Sussex, and its mouth is on Rye Bay, part of the English Channel. Prior to 1287, its mouth was further to the east at New Romney, but it changed its course after a great storm blocked its exit to the sea. It was known as the ''Limen'' until the sixteenth century. For the final , the river bed is below the high tide level, and Scots Float sluice is used to control levels. It prevents salt water entering the river system at high tides, and retains water in the river during the summer months to ensure the health of the surrounding marsh habitat. Below the sluice, the river is tidal for . The river has been used for navigation since Roman times, and is still navigable by small boats as far as Bodiam Castle. It flowed in a loop around the northern edge of the Isle of Oxney until 1635, when it was diverted along the southern edge. Scots Float Sluice was built before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taormina
Taormina ( , , also , ; scn, Taurmina) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Messina, on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy. Taormina has been a tourist destination since the 19th century. Its beaches on the Ionian sea, including that of Isola Bella, are accessible via an aerial tramway built in 1992, and via highways from Messina in the north and Catania in the south. On 26–27 May 2017 Taormina hosted the 43rd G7 summit. History The history of Taormina dates back to before Ancient Greece established its first colony on Sicily in 734 BCE. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Taormina continued to rank as one of the more important towns of the island. Taormina followed the history of Sicily in being ruled by successive foreign monarchs. After the Italian unification, Taormina began to attract well-off tourists from northern Europe, and it became known as a welcoming haven for gay men and artists. Main sights The presen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lamb House, Rye
Lamb or The Lamb may refer to: * A young sheep * Lamb and mutton, the meat of sheep Arts and media Film, television, and theatre * ''The Lamb'' (1915 film), a silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in his screen debut * ''The Lamb'' (1918 film), a silent short comedy starring Harold Lloyd * ''The Lamb'' (2014 film), a 2014 Turkish-German film * ''The Lamb'' (2017 film), a 2017 American animated film * ''Lamb'' (1985 film), a 1985 drama starring Liam Neeson * ''Lamb'' (2015 American film), a 2015 American film by Ross Partridge * ''Lamb'' (2015 Ethiopian film), a 2015 Ethiopian film * ''Lamb'' (2021 film), a supernatural drama film starring Noomi Rapace * ''LaMB'', a 2009 animated telefilm * The Lambs, an American theatrical organization * ''The Lamb'', an uncompleted film project by Garth Brooks about the fictional musician Chris Gaines * "Lambs", an episode of the television series ''Teletubbies'' Literature * ''The Lamb'' (poem), a 1789 poem by William Blake * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
