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Saville was born Philip Saffer on 28 October 1927 at Marylebone, London (in later life he gave his birth year as 1930, a date repeated in all his obituaries), [5] son of Louis Saffer (who later assumed the anglicized form of the family name, "Saville", chosen by his father, Joseph Saffer, a master tailor), a travelling salesman for a clothing company, and Sadie Kathleen (known as "Kay"), née ...
The Best House in London is a 1969 British comedy film directed by Philip Saville and starring David Hemmings, Joanna Pettet, George Sanders, Warren Mitchell, John Bird, Maurice Denham and Bill Fraser. [2] [3] It was written by Dennis Norden.
Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes. [34] [35]
Esther Saville Allen (née, Saville; pen names, Winnie Woodbine, Etta Saville, Mrs. S. R. Allen; December 11, 1837 - July 16, 1913) was an American author of the long nineteenth century. In her day, Allen was likely the author of more works, both in prose and verse, than any other woman in Arkansas . [ 1 ]
Agnes Blackadder was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, on 4 December 1875, the daughter of Robert Blackadder, a Dundee architect and engineer.She spent most of her early life around Dundee, living in Bellevue, West Ferry and attending the High School of Dundee.
Kate Saville was a daughter of John Faucit Saville, an actor and playwright, and sister of the actress Helena Faucit.She first appeared on the London stage in September 1859, in Ivy Hall, adapted by John Oxenford from Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre by Octave Feuillet.
She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf.
Margaret Caroline Llewelyn Davies was born on 16 October 1861 in Marylebone, London, the youngest of seven children born to Mary (née Crompton) and John Llewelyn Davies. Davies' parents were involved in radical intellectual movements when she was a child.