In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term "anthology" typically categorizes collections of shorter works such as short stories and short novels, by different authors, each featuring unrelated casts of characters and settings, and usually collected into a single volume for publication.
In England, a township is a local division or district of a large parish containing a village or small town usually having its own church. A township may or may not be coterminous with a chapelry, manor, or any other minor area of local administration.
Oswestry was a small local government district with borough status in Shropshire, England. It was the smallest of the five districts of Shropshire in terms of both population and land area.
Shelvock is a name of Saxon origins - from the Old English scelf meaning a shelf of level ground, or flat topped hill, and ac meaning oak, taken from the ancient Manor of Shelvock, near Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire, England originally pronounced "shelf'ac", "shelv'ak" or "shelv'oak", but today as "shel'vock". All families with this name are believed to be given to tenant-farmers and servants attached to the manor.
Alpha Xi Delta is a women's fraternity founded on April 17, 1893 at Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois, United States.
Nesscliffe is a village in Shropshire, England, located north of the River Severn. The village comes under the Great Ness parish.
Zhengding, originally Zhending, is a county in the southwestern Hebei Province, North China, located approximately 260 km (160 mi) south of Beijing. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Shijiazhuang, the capital of the province, and has a population of 594,000. Zhengding has been an important religious center for more than 1,000 years, from - at least - the times of the Sui dynasty to the Qing dynasty. It is the founding place of several major schools of Chan Buddhism, however, many former religious building complexes have been severely damaged throughout history. A noted temple is the Longxing Monastery, where the historical building ensemble has been preserved almost intact. Furthermore, four famous pagodas, each with its own architectural style, are still standing.
The River Perry is a river in Shropshire, England. It rises near Oswestry and flows south to meet the River Severn above Shrewsbury. Along its 24 miles (39 km) length, its level drops by some 320 feet (95 m). The channel has been heavily engineered, both to enable water mills to be powered by it, and to improve the drainage of the surrounding land. There were at least seven corn mills in the 1880s, and the last one remained operational until 1966. The middle section of the river crosses Baggy Moor, where major improvements were made in 1777 to drain the moor. The scheme was one of the largest to enclose and improve land in North Shropshire, and the quality of the reclaimed land justified the high cost. A section of the river bed was lowered in the 1980s, to continue the process.
Quill & Quire, a Canadian magazine about the book and publishing industry, was launched in 1935 and has an average circulation of 5,000 copies per issue, with a publisher-claimed readership of 25,000. Quill & Quire reviews books and magazines and provides a forum for discussion of trends in the publishing industry. The publication is considered a significant source of short reviews for new Canadian books.
Dundurn Press is one of the largest Canadian-owned book publishing company of adult and children's fiction and non-fiction. The company publishes Canadian literature, history, biography, politics and arts. Dundurn has about 2500 books in print, and averages around one hundred new titles each year. Dundurn Press was established in 1972 by Kirk Howard, In 2009, Dundurn forged a co-publishing partnership with the Ontario Genealogical Society, and in 2011, Dundurn purchased Napoleon & Company and Blue Butterfly Books. In 2013, Dundurn acquired Thomas Allen Publishers, the publishing branch of Thomas Allen & Son Limited.
Ruyton Girls' School, commonly referred to simply as Ruyton, is a non-denominational and independent day school for girls, located on Selbourne Road, Kew, an inner-eastern suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
The Violet Quill was a group of seven gay male writers that met in 1980 and 1981 in New York City to read from their writings to each other and to critique them. This group and the writers epitomize the years between the Stonewall Riots and the beginning of the AIDS pandemic.
Packwood Haugh School is a co-educational Preparatory school for pupils from the ages of 4 to 13, offering places for both day and boarding pupils. It is located in Ruyton-XI-Towns, midway between Oswestry and Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England.
John Craven, 1st Baron Craven of Ruyton XI Towns, Shropshire, was an English peer. He is chiefly remembered now as founder of the Craven scholarships at Oxford and Cambridge.
Arthur Harold Moss was an American expatriate poet and magazine editor.
The Porcupine's Quill is an independent publishing company in Erin, Ontario, Canada. The Porcupine's Quill publishes contemporary Canadian literature, including poetry, fiction, art and literary criticism. It is owned and operated by Tim and Elke Inkster.
Frederic Richardson Murray was the Archdeacon of Belize from 1907 to 1918.
Hell's Bounty is a horror novel written by American brothers Joe R. Lansdale and John L. Lansdale. It takes place in the old western town of Falling Rock. Bounty hunter Smith(no first name given) sets off a chain of events as he searches for one bad hombre Quill. He is blown to hell, literally, where he makes a deal with a bartender Snappy, who is really Satan. He will save Smith from the bowels of hell if he returns to Falling Rock and stops Quill who has made a deal with the "Old Ones" who are so evil even Satan can't abide. Smith teams up with a whip snapping redhead whore named Payday, a legless man called Undertaker, and a whisky drinking doctor to stop Quill who has turned into a winged demon and has turned the people of the town into ghouls to try to stop Smith and his band from ruining his plans.
Ruyton-XI-Towns is a civil parish in Shropshire, England. It contains 38 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the large village of Ruyton-XI-Towns and smaller settlements including Wykey, and is otherwise rural. The parish contains two country houses and other large houses that are listed, together with associated structures. Most of the other listed buildings are smaller houses, cottages, farmhouses and farm buildings, the earliest of which are timber framed or have timber-framed cores. The remainder include two churches, items in a churchyard, the remains of a castle, public houses, a cross, and a war memorial.
