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Later in the year, Griswold adds a memoir to the third volume, denigrating Poe's reputation, based partly on forged evidence. [1] January–April – The Germ, a periodical of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood edited by William Michael Rossetti, is published (four issues, the last two retitled Art and Poetry). [2]
The character of Charles Augustus Milverton was based on a real blackmailer, Charles Augustus Howell. He was an art dealer who preyed upon an unknown number of people, including the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. [6] Doyle's literary inspiration often came from his natural interest in crime, and he had no tolerance for predators.
Arthur Dimmesdale is a fictional character in the 1850 romance The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. A Puritan minister, he has fathered an illegitimate child, Pearl, with Hester Prynne and considers himself unable to reveal his sin. [1] [2]
David Copperfield is the contemporary of two major memory-based works, William Wordsworth's The Prelude (1850), an autobiographical poem about the formative experiences of his youth and Tennyson's In Memoriam (1850) which eulogises the memory of his friend, Arthur Hallam. [19]
The playwright Margaret Macnamara wrote a play based on the novel which was performed in 1949. [49] Her novel Wives and Daughters aired on BBC television in 1999. In 2004, a television film miniseries aired on BBC television of her 1854 novel North and South. In 2007, her three part novella Cranford starring Judi Dench aired on BBC television.
Police are warning about a growing number of email "sextortion" scams. Scammers will claim to have compromising search history and demand crypto to keep quiet.
The novel was extremely successful commercially, but contemporary critics were generally hostile. [5] Modern critics and readers regard it as Collins's best novel: [ 5 ] a view with which Collins concurred, as it is the only one of his novels named in his chosen epitaph : "Author of The Woman in White and other works of fiction".
As Elizabeth Holmes prepares to report to prison next week, the criminal case that laid bare the blood-testing scam at the heart of her Theranos startup is entering its final phase. The 11-year ...