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Charles Knight (15 March 1791 – 9 March 1873) was an English publisher, editor and author. He published and contributed to works such as The Penny Magazine , The Penny Cyclopaedia , and The English Cyclopaedia , and established the Local Government Chronicle .
Writing fiction however remained an interest of Major, and fifteen years later at age 42, he published his first novel in 1896, When Knighthood Was in Flower under the pseudonym / pen name of Edwin Caskoden. The novel about old medieval Kingdom of England in the 16th century during the reign of King Henry VIII (1491-1547
Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.. Charles was born into the House of Stuart as the second son of King James VI of Scotland, but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603, he moved to England, where he spent much of the rest of his life.
Based on the 1898 novel When Knighthood Was in Flower by Charles Major (1856-1913), of Shelbyville, Indiana. It was originally made into an early silent film motion picture in 1908 in the Nickelodeon era and again 15 years later in another silent film but longer, more developed plot in the 1922 flick version as When Knighthood Was in Flower.
At the Restoration, Wyndham's Cromwellian baronetcy passed into oblivion, but he received a knighthood from king Charles II (between April 1660 and April 1661) and was granted a baronetcy by Charles II, on 9 December 1661. [17] The Protectorate baronetcies, being rare, seem to have been much prized; and that of Henry Ingoldsby raised jealousies ...
Charles II circa 1661. The Knights of the Royal Oak was an intended order of chivalry in England. It was proposed in 1660 at the time of the restoration of Charles II of England to be a reward for those Englishmen who had faithfully and actively supported Charles during his nine years of exile in continental Europe.
The book is the inspiration behind the unusual name of the village of Westward Ho! in Devon, the only place name in the United Kingdom that contains an exclamation mark. [ 10 ] J. G. Ballard , in an interview with Vanora Bennett , claimed that being forced to copy lines from the novel as a punishment at the age of eight or nine was the moment ...
Macfarlane's most substantial work was the Civil and Military History of England, part of Knight's Pictorial History of England, edited by George Lillie Craik, 8 vols. 1838-44. [3] [4] [5] An abridgment, with a continuation bringing it up to date, was published under the title of The Cabinet History of England, 26 vols. London, 1845-7. [6]