Pleasance may refer to:
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Pleasance Pendred
Pleasance Pendred (15 July 1864 – 29 September 1948) was a British campaigner for women's rights, an activist and suffragette who during her imprisonment in Holloway Prison went on hunger strike as a consequence of which she was force-fed.
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(1864–1948), British women's rights activist and suffragette
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Pleasance Smith
Pleasance Smith (née Reeve; 11 May 1773 – 3 February 1877) was an English letter writer, literary editor, and centenarian. Smith lived to the age of 103, becoming well known in later life on account of her advanced years.
Life
Smith was born ...
(1773–1877), English letter writer, literary editor and centenarian
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Richard Pleasance, Australian rock musician and record producer
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Simon Pleasance
Simon Pleasance (born 1944) is an Anglo-French art translator and writer. He was educated at St. Edward’s School, then Keble College., Oxford. He is a longtime resident of southern Languedoc, France, and President of the environmental watchdog ...
(born 1944), Anglo-French art translator and writer
Other uses
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The Pleasance (street), a street just outside the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland
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The Pleasance
The Pleasance is a theatre, bar, sports and recreation complex in Edinburgh, Scotland, situated on a street of the same name. It is owned by the University of Edinburgh, and for nine months of the year it serves the Edinburgh University Stude ...
, a theatre, bar, sports and recreation complex on the street
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Pleasance Theatre Trust, often simply called The Pleasance, a Scottish venue operator and producer of live events
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Pleasance B.C.
Pleasance Basketball Club are a basketball club based in Edinburgh, Scotland .
History
The club was the founded in 1947, one of the first basketball clubs formed in Scotland. Led by club stalwart Jock Kerr Hunter, and along with Heriot's, Polon ...
, a basketball club based in Edinburgh
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Pleasance Islington, also known as the Pleasance Theatre, a fringe theatre in Islington, London
See also
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Emslie Horniman's Pleasance, a park in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London
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Pleasence, a surname
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English-language feminine given names