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| Author | Compton Mackenzie |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
Publication date | 1915 |
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Guy and Pauline is a 1915 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It was begun on Capri and written in three and a half months, and remained Mackenzie's favourite of his own works. [1] It was published in America with the alternative title of Plashers Mead.
Mr. Compton Mackenzie has, in fact, written a prose poem with intervals of narration. [2]
Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, was an English-born Scottish writer of fiction, biography, histories and a memoir, as well as a cultural commentator, raconteur and lifelong Scottish nationalist. He was one of the co-founders in 1928 of the National Party of Scotland along with Hugh MacDiarmid, R. B. Cunninghame Graham and John MacCormick. He was knighted in 1952.
Whisky Galore is a novel written by Compton Mackenzie, published in 1947. It was adapted for the cinema under the title Whisky Galore!.
Gramophone is a magazine published monthly in London, devoted to classical music, particularly to reviews of recordings. It was founded in 1923 by the Scottish author Compton Mackenzie who continued to edit the magazine until 1961. It was acquired by Haymarket in 1999. In 2013 the Mark Allen Group became the publisher.
Sinister Street is a 1913–1914 novel by Compton Mackenzie. It is a kind of Bildungsroman or novel about growing up, and concerns two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella. Both of them are born out of wedlock, something which was frowned upon at the time, but from rich parents.
The 32nd National Assembly of Quebec was the provincial legislature in Quebec, Canada that was elected in the 1981 Quebec general election. It sat for a total of five sessions from May 19, 1981, to June 18, 1981; from September 30, 1981, to October 2, 1981; from November 9, 1981, to March 10, 1983; from March 23, 1983, to June 20, 1984; and from October 16, 1984, to October 10, 1985. The Parti Québécois government was led by Premier René Lévesque for most of the mandate, and by Pierre-Marc Johnson for a few months prior to the 1985 election. The Liberal opposition was led by Claude Ryan, by interim Liberal leader Gérard D. Levesque, and then by Robert Bourassa.
Henry Compton was an English actor best known for his Shakespearean comic roles.
The Monarch of the Glen is a Scottish comic farce novel written by English-born Scottish author Compton Mackenzie and published in 1941. The first in Mackenzie's Highland Novels series, it depicts the life in the fictional Scottish castle of Glenbogle. The television programme Monarch of the Glen is very loosely based on the series.
Katherine Julia Mackenzie was an English actress, professionally known as Katherine Compton, or, more usually, Miss Compton. She was best known for her appearances in the comedies written by her husband R. C. Carton, between 1885 and 1922.
The Four Winds of Love is the overall title for a series of six novels written by Compton Mackenzie, The East Wind of Love (1937), The South Wind of Love (1938), The West Wind of Love (1940), West to North (1942), The North Wind of Love, Book 1 (1944) and The North Wind of Love, Book 2 (1945), which taken together constitute a major fictional chronicle of the first forty years of the twentieth century. The main protagonist of the hexalogy is the semi-autobiographical character of John Ogilvie.
Home is a 1915 British silent drama film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Elisabeth Risdon, Fred Groves and A.V. Bramble. A poor girl discovers she is really a Duke's daughter, but eventually returns to her own family of fishermen.
Faith Compton Mackenzie or Lady Mackenzie was an author known for memoirs of her travels around Europe.
Edward Compton was an actor and actor-manager of the Victorian era who enjoyed considerable success in touring the English provinces with plays by Shakespeare, Sheridan and Goldsmith but who met with failure while trying to break into the West End theatre.
Virginia Frances Bateman was an American actress and actor-manager who performed with her husband Edward Compton in his Compton Comedy Company which toured the provinces of the United Kingdom from 1881 to 1923. On her husband's death in 1918 she ran the Company. She founded the Theatre Girls' Club.
The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, often shortened to Sylvia Scarlett, is a 1918 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. The heroine of the story had previously appeared in Mackenzie's Sinister Street. It was followed by a sequel Sylvia and Michael in 1919.
Sylvia and Michael is 1919 novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie, sometimes known by the longer name The Later Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett. It was published as a sequel to the 1918 work Sylvia Scarlett, and portrays the heroine's adventures in a number of European cities including Paris, Kiev and Bucharest.
Buttercups and Daisies is a 1931 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie.
Figure of Eight is a 1936, novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie.
Rich Relatives is a 1921 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie.
Vestal Fire is a 1927 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It was inspired by the time Mackenzie had spent living in Capri before the First World War.
April Fools is a 1930 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie. It is the sequel to his 1919 work Poor Relations.
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