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Hannah Kent (born 1985) is an Australian writer, known for two novels – Burial Rites (2013) and The Good People (2016). Her third novel, Devotion , was published in 2021. Early life and education
Hannah Kent Schoff (née Hannah Kent; June 3, 1853 – December 10, 1940) was an American welfare worker and reformer.She was influential in state and was a "National Child Welfare" and "Juvenile Criminal" legislation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Shannon Mary Kent (née Smith, May 11, 1983 – January 16, 2019) was a United States Navy cryptologic technician and member of JSOC's Intelligence Support Activity who was killed in the 2019 Manbij bombing.
While researching her first novel, Burial Rites, the story of the last woman executed in Iceland, Kent came across a story in a newspaper about a woman named Anne Roche who was tried for the death of a young boy called Michael Leahy by drowning him in the Flesk. A witness against Anne Roche was Mary Clifford, a servant for the boy's grandmother.
Kent was inspired to write Burial Rites during her time as an exchange student in Iceland when she was 17, where she learnt the story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir. [2] She then made it the topic of her honours degree thesis and PhD at Flinders University , with additional mentoring by Geraldine Brooks .
A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
On 19 February 2020, Rowan Baxter perpetrated a quadruple murder–suicide in Camp Hill, Queensland, Australia.Baxter fatally burned his 31-year-old estranged wife Hannah Clarke and their three children, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey, before dying by suicide at the scene.
On November 8, 2024, Hannah Kobayashi went missing after leaving Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). She arrived at LAX on November 8 as a layover on a trip from Maui, Hawaii to New York City. For unknown reasons, she did not board her connecting flight and left the airport. [1] [2]