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Helena Kelly is a British biographer.
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Helena Kelly is a British biographer.
Kelly grew up in North Kent. She graduated from the University of Oxford. [1]
Northanger Abbey is a coming-of-age novel and a satire of Gothic novels written by the English author Jane Austen. Although the title page is dated 1818 and was published posthumously in 1817 with Persuasion, Northanger Abbey was completed in 1803, making it the first of Austen's novels to be completed in full. From a fondness of Gothic novels and an active imagination distorting her worldview, the story follows Catherine Morland, the naïve young protagonist, as she develops to better understand herself and the world around her.
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.
Claire Tomalin is an English journalist and biographer known for her biographies of Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft.
George Bradshaw was an English cartographer, printer and publisher. He developed Bradshaw's Guide, a widely sold series of combined railway guides and timetables.
Ellen Lawless Ternan, also known as Nelly Ternan or Nelly Wharton-Robinson, was an English actress known for her romantic relationship with the elderly Charles Dickens.
The Bondwoman's Narrative is a novel by Hannah Crafts whose plot revolves around an escape from slavery in North Carolina. The manuscript was not authenticated and properly published until 2002. Scholars believe that the novel was written between 1853 and 1861. It is one of the first novels by an African-American woman, another is the novel Our Nig by Harriet Wilson, published in 1859, while an autobiography from the same time period is Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, published in 1861.
The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise was published by the mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage in 1837 as a response to the eight Bridgewater Treatises that the Earl of Bridgewater, Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl, had funded. The Bridgewater Treatises were written by eight scientists and purported "to lend scientific support to belief in the existence of deity." Babbage was not one of the invited scientists, and the Ninth Bridgewater Treatise was thus an unauthorised continuation of the series.
Andrew Mangham is a British literary critic and professor at the University of Reading. He is best known for his work on Victorian literature.
Brigadier-General George Augustus Stewart Cape was a brigadier general in the 39th Division, Royal Artillery of the British Army during World War I.
Morfydd Clark is a Welsh actress. Her appearances include Love & Friendship (2016), Interlude in Prague (2017), and The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019). Also on television, she played Mina Harker in Dracula (2020) and Sister Clara in His Dark Materials (2019).
Juliette C. Wells is an American author, editor, and Jane Austen scholar. She is the Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of English in the Center for the Humanities at Goucher College. In 2015, Wells served as the chair of the English department at Goucher. Her work focuses on women's writing and 18th and 19th century British literature, especially that of Jane Austen.
Under the Feet of Jesus is a 1995 book by Helena Maria Viramontes and her first published novel. It was released in the United States by Plume and follows the lives of a Mexican-American migrant family working in the California grape fields.
Jane Cumming m. Tulloch was a witness in a libel suit made famous in the Lillian Hellman play, The Children's Hour.
Taylor Stoehr (1931–2013) was an American professor and author. He edited several volumes of Paul Goodman's work as his literary executor.
Miriam Isabel Davis was an English painter, best known for her portrait, floral and genre scene paintings.
Eliza Davis (1817–1903) was a Jewish English woman who is remembered for her correspondence with the novelist Charles Dickens about his depiction of Jewish characters in his novels.
Juliana Hepzibeth Scott Szczepanowska de Ferranti was a British concert pianist and author.
Lee Jackson is a British novelist and historian.
Cora Harrison is an Irish author. She writes critically acclaimed historical detective novels primarily based in Ireland, and has also written many books for children of all ages. Her mystery series include The Burren Mysteries set in 16th-century West Ireland; the Reverend Mother Mystery series set in the 1920s Cork during the Irish Civil War; the Gaslight series based on the real life friendship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, acting as amateur detectives in 19th century London; and many others.
Charles Babbage's Saturday night soirées were gatherings held by the mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage at his home in Dorset Street in London from 1828 and into the 1840s. The soirées were attended by the cultural elite of the time.
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