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Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) [ 2 ] was a British singer and songwriter who achieved worldwide fame as the lead vocalist and pianist of the rock band Queen. Regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock music, he was known for his flamboyant stage persona and four- octave vocal range.
This page is about the American writer, see Mary Austin for others with similar names.. Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 – August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora, and people of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.
Longbourn House in the village of Longbourn, Meryton, in Hertfordshire. The Bennet family is a fictional family created by the English novelist Jane Austen in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. The family consists of Mr and Mrs Bennet and their five daughters: Jane, Mary, Catherine, Lydia, and Elizabeth, who is the novel's protagonist.
Jane Austen's parents, George (1731–1805), an Anglican rector, and his wife Cassandra (1739–1827), were members of the landed gentry. [1] George was descended from wool manufacturers who had risen to the lower ranks of the gentry, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and Cassandra was a member of the Leigh family of Adlestrop and Longborough , with connections to ...
Jane Austen (/ ˈɒstɪn, ˈɔːstɪn / OST-in, AW-stin; 16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century. Austen's plots often explore the dependence of women on marriage for the pursuit ...
The Land of Little Rain is a book written by American writer Mary Hunter Austin. [1]: 109 First published in 1903, it contains a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants, both human and otherwise, and the arid landscape of the Owens Valley and the Mojave Desert of California. It is number two on the Zamorano Eighty list of ...
Mary V. Austin (1900–1986), Australian community worker and political activist. Mary Brown Austin (1768–1824), mother of Texan pioneer Stephen F. Austin. Mary Austin (born 1951), closest friend and former girlfriend of British singer-songwriter Freddie Mercury. Mary Austin, wife of Brewster Kahle and co-founder of the Kahle/Austin Foundation.
Jane Austen lived her entire life as part of a family located socially and economically on the lower fringes of the English gentry. [1] The Rev. George Austen and Cassandra Leigh, Jane Austen's parents, lived in Steventon, Hampshire, where Rev. Austen was the rector of the Anglican parish from 1765 until 1801. [2]