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William Strachey (4 April 1572 – buried 16 August 1621) was an English writer whose works are among the primary sources for the early history of the English colonisation of North America. He is best remembered today as the eye-witness reporter of the 1609 shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Bermuda of the colonial ship Sea Venture , which ...
True Reportory is the short-title of a 24,000 word early American colonial narrative, A true reportory of the wracke, and redemption of Sir Thomas Gates Knight; vpon, and from the Ilands of the Bermudas: his comming to Virginia, and the estate of that Colonie then, and after, vnder the gouernment of the Lord La Warre, Iuly 15. 1610. [1]
William Shakespeare [a] (c. 23 [b] April 1564 – 23 April 1616) [c] was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
Pernel Strachey (1876–1951), scholar and educationist and the principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. James Strachey (1887–1967), a psychoanalyst and biographer of Sigmund Freud, married psychoanalyst Alix Strachey (1892–1973). Oliver Strachey (1874–1960) was a writer and cryptoanalyst and worked at Bletchley Park during WWII.
Opossunoquonuske invited a party of fourteen Englishmen to “feast and make merry” in her village. According to Virginian colonist William Strachey, she persuaded them to leave their weapons in their boat with feminine guile, claiming that “their [the Indian] women would be afrayd ells [else] of their pieces [weapons].”
4 Arguments from a Shakespeare professor. 3 comments. 5 She was an italian jewish woman! 1 comment. 6 Restored Summary / Neville Expansion. 2 comments.
The Strachey family, originally from Sutton Court, Somerset, England, a number of whom were associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Pages in category "Strachey family" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.
The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia [note 1] is a 1619 historical book by William Strachey, one of the most prominent primary sources on the earliest English colonization efforts in North America. He was a settler at Jamestown, and wrote extensively of the Powhatan civilization.