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The highly competent Sergeant Cuff, the policeman called in from Scotland Yard (whom Collins based on the real-life Inspector Jonathan Whicher who solved the murder committed by Constance Kent), [11] is not a member of the gentry and is unable to break Rachel Verinder's reticence about what Cuff knows is an inside job.
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]
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 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.
Her first novel, Mary Barton, was published in 1848. Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë , published in 1857, was the first biography of Charlotte Brontë . In this biography, she wrote only of the moral, sophisticated things in Brontë's life; the rest she omitted, deciding certain, more salacious aspects were better kept hidden.
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 that launched his career was The Spy, a tale about espionage set during the American Revolutionary War and published in 1821. [3] He also created American sea stories . His best-known works are five historical novels of the frontier period, written between 1823 and 1841, known as the Leatherstocking Tales , which introduced the iconic ...
There’s “some inconsistent evidence” that the day of the week is associated with mental health and well-being. Mental health is overall best in the summer.