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Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on 13 August 1899 in the flat above his parents' leased greengrocer's shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone, which was then part of Essex (now on the outskirts of East London). He was the son of greengrocer and poulterer, William Edgar Hitchcock (1862–1914) and Emma Jane (née Whelan; 1863–1942).
Frank Norris wrote McTeague in the San Francisco of the 1890s, and much of the book uses the local detail of this setting. He began the novel when at the English Department of Harvard University in 1895, although the bulk of the work was written in 1897. McTeague's murder of Trina is believed to be based on the murder of Mrs Sarah Collins, who ...
Across her writing career, she produced an estimated 780 articles, one booklet on birds, and 24 complete books. [13] Her work was acknowledged by professional biologists for its highly accurate research and observation. [2] After the death of her husband in 1904, Miller moved to Los Angeles, California. [4] She died there on 25 December 1918. [2]
Norris was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1870. [6] His father, Benjamin, was a self-made Chicago businessman and his mother, Gertrude Glorvina Doggett, had a stage career. In 1884 the family moved to San Francisco where Benjamin went into real estat
Following the release and subsequent success of Norris' 1899 McTeague, he began searching for an idea for his next project.Within a few weeks he had formulated his idea for a trilogy of novels on the topic of wheat, his 'Epic of the Wheat', from its growth in California (which would be the basis of The Octopus), to its distribution in Chicago (The Pit, published posthumously in 1903), to its ...
The wrath of the blizzard pummeled the mid-Atlantic between Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, 1899, with 20 to 30 inches of snow accumulating from central Virginia to western Connecticut, including 20.5 inches ...
November 2 – Anna Swanwick, English feminist writer (born 1813) November 13 – Arthur Giry, French historian (born 1848) December 17 – Bernard Quaritch, German-born English bibliographer and bookseller (born 1819) December 18 – Bonifaciu Florescu, Romanian polygraph (ventricular hypertrophy, born 1848) December 22 – Dwight L. Moody ...
Annalee Skarin (born Annalee Kohlepp: July 7, 1899 – January 17, 1988), was an American writer of mysticism and New Age literature, with nine best-selling books. She had been raised as a Latter-day Saint, and her 1948 book Ye Are Gods, with over 18 printings, was initially popular among some members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).