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Grisly
Grisly is a word meaning horrifiying, repellent or gruesome. It may refer to: *Grisly Steevens, nickname of Griselda Steevens (1653–1746), Irish philanthropist *''The Grisly Folk'', short story by H G Wells *''The Grisly Wife ''The Grisly Wife'' is a 1993 Miles Franklin literary award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award ...'', novel by Rodney Hall See also * Grizzly (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grisly Folk
H. G. Wells was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. His writing career spanned more than sixty years, and his early science fiction novels earned him the title (along with Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback) of "The Father of Science Fiction". Novels *''The Time Machine'' (1895). Fragments from the serial form in ''The New Review'' which were generally excluded in the book version can be found in the anthology edited by Robert M. Philmus, 1975, as can the untitled version published in seven instalments in the ''National Observer'' 17 March – 23 June 1894. *''The Wonderful Visit'' (1895) *''The Island of Doctor Moreau'' (1896) *''The Wheels of Chance'' (1896) *''The Invisible Man'' (1897) *''The War of the Worlds'' (1898) *''When the Sleeper Wakes'' (1899) *''Love and Mr Lewisham'' (1900) *''The First Men in the Moon'' (1901) *''The Sea Lady'' (1902) *''The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth'' (1904) *''Kipps'' (1905) *''A Modern Utopia'' (1905) *''In the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Grisly Wife
''The Grisly Wife'' is a 1993 Miles Franklin literary award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–19 ...-winning novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall. The Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report called it "a novel with a rather surprising vision." This novel is the third book in The Yandilli Trilogy (also referred to as ''A Dream More Luminous Than Love''), following the novels ''Captivity Captive'' in 1988, and ''The Second Bridgeroom'' in 1991. Awards *Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1994: winner *NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1994: shortlisted References 1993 Australian novels Miles Franklin Award-winning works {{1990s-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grisly Steevens
Legends featuring pig-faced women originated roughly simultaneously in Dutch Republic, Holland, Kingdom of England, England and Kingdom of France, France in the late 1630s. The stories tell of a wealthy woman whose body is of normal human appearance, but whose face is that of a pig. In the earliest forms of the story, the woman's pig-like appearance is the result of witchcraft. Following her wedding day, the pig-faced woman's new husband is granted the choice of having her appear beautiful to him but pig-like to others, or pig-like to him and beautiful to others. When her husband tells her that the choice is hers, the enchantment is broken and her pig-like appearance vanishes. These stories became particularly popular in England, and later in Ireland. The magical elements gradually vanished from the story, and the existence of pig-faced women began to be treated as fact. The story became particularly widespread in Dublin in the early 19th century, where it became widely believe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
