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Success came with We Two, based on the life of Charles Bradlaugh, a social reformer and advocate of free thought. Her historical novel In the Golden Days was the last book read to John Ruskin on his deathbed; [ 3 ] while Hope the Hermit was a bestseller set in the Lake District and later an inspiration for Hugh Walpole 's Rogue Herries . [ 4 ]
Dove Cottage, Wordsworth's home near Grasmere in the Lake District. Wordsworth was born in the Lake District and spent much of his life living there. Wordsworth and his friends Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge became known as Lake Poets not only because they lived in this area but also because its landscapes and people inspired their work.
Wordsworth's parents were John Wordsworth, a legal agent for James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale and Collector of Customs at Whitehaven, and his wife, Ann Cookson. [1] John was the son of Richard Wordsworth, a land owner who served as a legal agent to the Lowther family.
The son of financially comfortable parents, he grew up on a farm and learned to shoot a weapon and ride a horse. [2] After first venturing west about 1843, he returned home to Saint Louis after a couple years for a short time, and again in the spring of 1848, at which time his parents were living, but they died within the year.
Book One of the Pictorial Guide. Wainwright started work on the first page of his Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells on 9 November 1952. [10] He planned the precise scope and content of the seven volumes and worked conscientiously and meticulously on the series for the next 13 years at an average rate of one page per evening.
Arkham House Books: A Collector's Guide. Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 90. ISBN 0-7864-1785-4. Tales of the Miskatonic Valley by Nick Hagger, Fred Behrendt, Mark Morrison, Geoff Gillan and Mike Szymanski (1992, Paperback), ISBN 9780933635838; Fade to Grey Adventure. Insect from Shaggai#Massa di Requiem per Shuggay
At Lake Nipigon, Ontario, a First Nation boy carves a wooden model of an “Indian” in a canoe. On its side he roughly carves the words "Please put me back in the water. I am Paddle-to-the-Sea" and sets it free to travel the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. The story follows the progress of the little wooden canoe and paddler on their journey.
To the Lake (Russian: Эпидемия, lit. ' Epidemic ') is a Russian post-apocalyptic thriller television series launched on the Premier platform on 14 November 2019. [2] Its first season is based on Vongozero, a novel by Russian author Yana Vagner. [3] Netflix acquired the first season and released it internationally on 8 October 2020.